APIECE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does apiece mean? 

• APIECE (adverb)
  The adverb APIECE has 1 sense:

1. to or from every one of two or more (considered individually)

  Familiarity information: APIECE used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• APIECE (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

To or from every one of two or more (considered individually)

Synonyms:

apiece; each; for each one; from each one; to each one

Context example:

they received $10 each

 Context examples 

There were more stories in his head as good as "The Whirlpool," and at forty dollars apiece he could earn far more than in any job or position.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

On his evidence Cartwright was hanged and the other three got fifteen years apiece.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Then the peasants made up their minds that they too would fetch some sheep for themselves, a flock apiece, but the mayor said: “I come first.”

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

Put them at four pounds apiece to me, and what will the seventy bring?

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Here is a groat apiece, and you may go.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Pork, powder, and biscuit was the cargo, with only a musket and a cutlass apiece for the squire and me and Redruth and the captain.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

"I wish," said Margaret, striking out a novel thought, "that somebody would give us all a large fortune apiece!"

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

Off I set to him, and after much chaffering I got our stones at £ 1000 apiece.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I have heard him speak with great animation of a large family of young ladies that his sisters are intimate with, who have all twenty thousand pounds apiece.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

What wouldn't we have given then for a repeater apiece!

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)