apiece
advUK /əˈpiːs/ · US /əˈpis/
Etymology From Middle English a pece. By surface analysis, univerbation of a + piece.
1
Each by itself; for or to each one.
- Near-synonyms: piecewise, piecemeal; individually, singly
- These melons cost a dollar apiece.
2 more examples
- The engines were built in the Doncaster works at what I believe to have been the low cost, even for those days, of £2,500 apiece, [...].1943 January and February, Chas. S. Lake, “Some C.M.Es. I Have Known: IV—H. A. Ivatt”, in Railway Magazine, page 30:
- Sinkfield reduced his guests to myopic drunkenness one evening, induced them to bring forward their maps and charts, lop off a little here, add a bit there, and adjust the center of the county to meet his requirements. He sent them packing next day armed with their charts and five quarts of shinny in their saddlebags—two apiece and one for the Governor.1960 July 11, Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, Philadelphia, Pa.; New York, N.Y.: J[oshua] B[allinger] Lippincott Company, →OCLC:
2
Maine An undetermined distance.
- Derived terms
- a horse apiece
- Related terms
- apart