piecemeal
Pronunciation Adjective
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Pronunciation Adjective
piecemeal (not comparable)
- Made or done in pieces or one stage at a time.
- 1947 - George Marshall, The Marshall Plan Speech
- Such assistance, I am convinced, must not be on a piecemeal basis, as various crises develop.
- 1953, James Strachey, translation of Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams, Avon Books, pg. 224:
- But the copious and intertwined associative links warrant our accepting the former alternative: cyclamen—favourite flower—favourite food— artichokes; pulling to pieces like an artichoke, leaf by leaf (a phrase constantly ringing in our ears in relation to the piecemeal dismemberment of the Chinese Empire)—herbarium—bookworms, whose favourite food is books.
- 1947 - George Marshall, The Marshall Plan Speech
- stepwise; see also Thesaurus:gradual
- German: scheibchenweise, häppchenweise, bruchstückhaft, kleinteilig, in kleinen Schritten, stückweise
- Italian: frammentario
- Portuguese: fragmentado, fragmentada
- Russian: постепе́нный
- Spanish: deslavazado, poco sistemático
piecemeal (not comparable)
- Piece by piece; in small amounts, stages, or degrees.
- 1914 - Saki, The Forbidden Buzzards
- It’s as bad as selling a man a horse with half a dozen latent vices and watching him discover them piecemeal in the course of the hunting season.
- 1914 - Saki, The Forbidden Buzzards
- Into pieces or parts.
- 1888 - The Whitehall Murder, Daily Telegraph (London), October 03
- A few years ago also there was the case of Kate Webster, who at Richmond murdered her mistress, and, fiend-like, cut the body up piecemeal, and tried to dispose of it in various ways by small portions.
- 1888 - The Whitehall Murder, Daily Telegraph (London), October 03
- (piece by piece) little by little, bit by bit; see also Thesaurus:incrementally
- (into pieces or parts) apart; see also Thesaurus:asunder
- German: einzeln, in Portiönchen, häppchenweise, scheibchenweise
- Russian: по частя́м
- Spanish: deslavazadamente, desordenadamente
- German: in Einzelteile
- Russian: на куски́
piecemeal (piecemeals, present participle piecemealing; past and past participle piecemealed)
- (transitive) To divide or distribute piecemeal; dismember.
- apportion, mete out, parcel out; see also Thesaurus:divide or Thesaurus:distribute
piecemeal (plural piecemeals)
Synonyms- bit, lump, portion; see also Thesaurus:piece
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