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Apiece definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

APIE'CE, adv. [a and piece.]
To each; noting the share of each; as here is an orange apiece.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adv
1: to or from every one of two or more (considered individually); "they received $10 each" [syn: each, to each one, for each one, from each one, apiece]

Merriam Webster's

adverb Date: 15th century for each one ; individually

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adv. for each one; severally (had five pounds apiece). Etymology: A(2) + PIECE

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Apiece A*piece", adv. [Pref. a- + piece.] Each by itself; by the single one; to each; as the share of each; as, these melons cost a shilling apiece. ``Fined . . . a thousand pounds apiece.'' --Hume.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

1. If people have a particular number of things apiece, they have that number each. He and I had two fish apiece... = each ADV: amount ADV 2. If a number of similar things are for sale at a certain price apiece, that is the price for each one of them. Entire roast chickens were sixty cents apiece. = each ADV: amount ADV

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

ad. Severally, for each, each.