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[ uh-pees ] / əˈpis / SEE SYNONYMS FOR apiece ON THESAURUS.COM
adverbfor each piece, thing, or person; for each one; each: We ate an orange apiece. The cakes cost a dollar apiece. Origin of apieceFirst recorded in 1425–75, apiece is from late Middle English a pease. See a2, piece Words nearby apieceapicotomy, A picture is worth a thousand words, apiculate, apiculture, apiculus, apiece, à pied, Apiezon, API gravity scale, apiology, Apis Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for apieceCrain posted a cash bond of $102.50 apiece shortly before 1:30 P.M., and they returned to the Castle Hotel. How Martin Luther King Jr. Influenced Sam Cooke’s ‘A Change Is Gonna Come’|Peter Guralnick|December 28, 2014|DAILY BEAST They had heard about what Saed calls “a company” in Turkey that smuggles Syrians at a “fair price” of just $4,000 apiece. Inside the Smuggling Networks Flooding Europe with Refugees|Barbie Latza Nadeau|December 15, 2014|DAILY BEAST In January, he said the staff members resigned on February 12 and presented him checks for $7,500 apiece. Ethics Office Sees Evidence Republican Congressman Broke the Law|Ben Jacobs|June 11, 2014|DAILY BEAST The girls, 223 of whom are still missing, reportedly have been traded for about $12 apiece. A Hashtag May Help Rescue Jihadi-Enslaved Nigerian Schoolgirls|Nina Strochlic|May 6, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Only 150 ramen burgers were made available to the public at a price of $8 apiece. Ramen Burger’s Inventor Talks About the Food Craze Eclipsing the Cronut|Marlow Stern|August 9, 2013|DAILY BEAST If every one we asked gave two dollars apiece, that would mean twenty-four dollars. Grace Harlowe's Third Year at Overton College|Jessie Graham Flower Fabulous sums were spent upon his blocks, even small ones costing as much as four pounds apiece. In the Heart of Vosges|Matilda Betham-Edwards The hundred or more ought to yield me one or two dollars a day apiece. Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford|George Randolph Chester Them flags is worth a quarter apiece, and you'll break the handle. The Boy Scout Treasure Hunters|Charles Henry Lerrigo The prop'ty's all goin' to you, but I guess I shall leave five thousand apiece to the two families out the'e. Ragged Lady, Complete|William Dean Howells
British Dictionary definitions for apiece
adverb(postpositive) for, to, or from each onethey were given two apples apiece Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to apieceseparately, individually, aside, respectively, all, one by one, per, singly, a pop, severally, successively |