Antonyms for apiece


Grammar : Adv
Spell : uh-pees
Phonetic Transcription : əˈpis


Definition of apiece

Origin :
  • 1550s, a contraction of a pece (mid-15c.), originally of coins, objects for sale, etc. (see a (2) + piece (n.)).
  • adv each
Example sentences :
  • There's no sense to it, any way,—sixteen sheep stood him in two dollars apiece.
  • Extract from : « Tip Lewis and His Lamp » by Pansy
  • I'll tell you what, I'll give you fifty cents apiece for the lot!
  • Extract from : « Meadow Grass » by Alice Brown
  • Doyle or Galvin would charge ten dollars apiece for such in Boston.
  • Extract from : « Aztec Land » by Maturin M. Ballou
  • The first three prize-winners would be worth a clear 450 apiece.
  • Extract from : « War Letters of a Public-School Boy » by Paul Jones.
  • Come, come, Susan Jane; there is two apiece, an' six fur company!
  • Extract from : « Janet of the Dunes » by Harriet T. Comstock
  • Some were so big and heavy that they weighed five or six pounds apiece.
  • Extract from : « Home Life in Colonial Days » by Alice Morse Earle
  • Them flags is worth a quarter apiece, and you'll break the handle.
  • Extract from : « The Boy Scout Treasure Hunters » by Charles Henry Lerrigo
  • That he is; but the fish came to about that; the tautog are worth a quarter apiece.
  • Extract from : « Little By Little » by William Taylor Adams
  • Pickled the tongues an' sold 'em for three cents apiece, by gum.
  • Extract from : « Oh, You Tex! » by William Macleod Raine
  • We had but a shot or two apiece to the musket, they tell me.
  • Extract from : « John Splendid » by Neil Munro

Synonyms for apiece

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