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apiece

[ uh-pees ]

adverb

  1. for each piece, thing, or person; for each one; each:

    We ate an orange apiece. The cakes cost a dollar apiece.



apiece

/ əˈpiːs /

adverb

  1. postpositive for, to, or from each one

    they were given two apples apiece



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Word History and Origins

Origin of apiece1

First recorded in 1425–75, apiece is from late Middle English a pease. See a 2, piece

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Example Sentences

Crain posted a cash bond of $102.50 apiece shortly before 1:30 P.M., and they returned to the Castle Hotel.

They had heard about what Saed calls “a company” in Turkey that smuggles Syrians at a “fair price” of just $4,000 apiece.

You can find fourteen of these copper creations, all initially containing 3,900 liters of liquid apiece, on the Macallan estate.

In January, he said the staff members resigned on February 12 and presented him checks for $7,500 apiece.

The girls, 223 of whom are still missing, reportedly have been traded for about $12 apiece.

They coolly replied they would take a thousand apiece before noon on the following day, and ten thousand each in case of death.

Them gentlemen is candidates for a rope necktie apiece—nice perfessional assassins t' have in the Police!

Ten minutes later the two possessed but a single rose apiece—they had generously given all the rest away.

Those medium-sized ones, made of wood and hooped like casks, cost from 80 pounds to 100 pounds apiece without appendages.

And still there would be left enough for new stockings—two pairs apiece—and what darning that would save for a while!

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