pie

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A baked dish made of pastry with a filling of fruit, meat, or vegetables inside.

   We had apple pie and ice cream for dessert.

2. 2
   noun

   A round chart divided into slices to show how a whole is split into parts.

   The pie clearly showed how the company spent its budget.

3. 3
   noun

   The whole amount of money or resources that is to be shared out.

   Each department wants a bigger slice of the company's pie.

From Hindi पाई (pāī, “low-denomination coin”), from Sanskrit पादिका (pādikā, “foot, shoe”), from पाद (pāda, “foot, base, quarter”) + -इक (-ika, “-ic: forming adjectives”).

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