Sekirov Dictionary

piecemeal

/ˈpiːs.miːl/

adverb 2
adjective 1
noun 1
verb 1
forms 3

adverb2

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Piece by piece; in small amounts, stages, or degrees.
- 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
•
Into pieces or parts.
- Stoop villaine, stoop, stoope for so he bids, That may commaund thee peecemeale to be torne, Or scattered like the lofty Cedar trees. Strooke with the voice of thundring Iupiter. — 1587

adjective1

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Made or done in pieces or one stage at a time.
- Such assistance, I am convinced, must not be on a piecemeal basis, as various crises develop. — 1947

noun1

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A fragment; a scrap.
- Thus the world Is all to piecemeals cut — 1695

verb1

To divide or distribute piecemeal; dismember.

forms

piecemealed · piecemealing · piecemeals

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