piecemeal

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  1. adverb By a small amount at a time; in stages: articles acquired piecemeal.
  2. adverb In pieces; apart.
  3. adjective Accomplished or made in stages.

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  • Divide it and try to sell it piecemeal, and do not drown yourself. —  The Memoirs of Marie Antoinette, entire
  • It is not unnoteworthy that the batch of poems called in the later collected editions Switzerland , and completed at last by the piece called On the Terrace at Berne , appeared originally piecemeal, and with no indication of connection. —  Matthew Arnold
  • If We stand by and let the Kingdom be devoured piecemeal, the army We are building inside these walls will matter little. —  Carr, John F, Kalvan Kingmaker (v1.0) (html).html
  • The elves gobbled the humans up piecemeal, and for almost forty cycles, the elves ruled both Uylandia and the Volkaran Isles. —  Death Gate Cycle 1 - Dragon Wing
  • Such a process is referred to as a piecemeal restore. —  Recently Uploaded Slideshows
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  1. Middle English pecemeale : pece, piece; see piece + -mele, by a fixed measure (from Old English -mǣlum, at a time, from dative pl. of mǣl, appointed time; see mē-2 in Indo-European roots).

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  1. Early modern English also peecemeale, from Middle English pecemele; from piece + -meal, as in dropmeal, flockmeal, etc.
  2. from piecemeal, adv.
 

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