Apiece Meaning
/əˈpiːs/Definition, CEFR level C1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
advEach by itself; for or to each one.
advAn undetermined distance.
Sentence Examples
The tickets cost 20 yen apiece.
Our babysitter gave us a chocolate bar apiece.
Synonyms & Antonyms
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The museum tickets cost fifteen dollars ____, so two tickets cost thirty.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The tickets for the local concert were only ten dollars ____.
Word Origin & History
From Middle English a pece. By surface analysis, univerbation of a + piece.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"The engines were built in the Doncaster works at what I believe to have been the low cost, even for those days, of £2,500 apiece, [...]."
— 1943 January and February, Chas. S. Lake, “Some C.M.Es. I Have Known: IV—H. A. Ivatt”, in Railway Magazine, page 30:
"Sinkfield reduced his guests to myopic drunkenness one evening, induced them to bring forward their maps and charts, lop off a little here, add a bit there, and adjust the center of the county to meet his requirements. He sent them packing next day armed with their charts and five quarts of shinny in their saddlebags—two apiece and one for the Governor."
— 1960 July 11, Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, Philadelphia, Pa.; New York, N.Y.: J[oshua] B[allinger] Lippincott Company, →OCLC:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The museum tickets cost fifteen dollars ____, so two tickets cost thirty.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The tickets for the local concert were only ten dollars ____.