piecemeal

Speech parts

1. piecemeal - Noun

2. piecemeal - Adjective

3. piecemeal - Verb

4. piecemeal - Adverb

6. piecemeal - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

In pieces; in parts or fragments.

Piece by piece; by little and little in succession.

Made up of parts or pieces; single; separate.

A fragment; a scrap.

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Examples

Doing research on the Web is like using a library assembled piecemeal by pack rats and vandalized nightly. Roger Ebert

Piecemeal social engineering resembles physical engineering in regarding the ends as beyond the province of technology. Karl Popper

Evolution doesn't design things... The brain is... like a big, old house with piecemeal renovations done on every floor, and less like new construction. Daniel Levitin

Better to sink beneath the shock Than moulder piecemeal on the rock! Lord Byron

I woke in bits, like all children, piecemeal over the years. I discovered myself and the world, and forgot them, and discovered them again. Annie Dillard

This world was not created piecemeal. Africa was born no later and no earlier than any other geographical area on this globe. Africans, no more and no less than other men, possess all human attributes, talents and deficiencies, virtues and faults. Haile Selassie

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