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APIECE
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I. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
To or from every one of two or more (considered individually)
Example:
they received $10 each
Synonyms:
apiece; each; for each one; from each one; to each one
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Context examples:
Aunt March usually gave the sisters a present of twenty-five dollars apiece at New Year's.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
They ought to be worth a dollar apiece.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
I told him that we would give him a price for the stones he held—£ 1000 apiece.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The tooth-drawer and the gleeman called for a cup of small ale apiece, and started off together for Ringwood fair, the old jongleur looking very yellow in the eye and swollen in the face after his overnight potations.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
He then took a bundle of smaller ribands of the same colour from his seconds, and walking round, he offered them to the noblemen and Corinthians at half-a-guinea apiece as souvenirs of the fight.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The smallness of the company made it necessary for the two principal actors to take several parts apiece, and they certainly deserved some credit for the hard work they did in learning three or four different parts, whisking in and out of various costumes, and managing the stage besides.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
There were thirty poems in the collection, and he was to receive a dollar apiece for them.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
You would not think £ 1000 apiece an excessive sum for them?
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I don't believe fine young ladies enjoy themselves a bit more than we do, in spite of our burned hair, old gowns, one glove apiece and tight slippers that sprain our ankles when we are silly enough to wear them.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
“A nice little brougham and a pair of beauties. A hundred and fifty guineas apiece. There’s money in this case, Watson, if there is nothing else.”
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
