adj. Made or done in pieces or one stage at a time.
ad. Piece by piece; in small amounts, stages, or degrees.
ad. Into pieces or parts.
v. To divide or distribute piecemeal; dismember.
n. A fragment; a scrap.
the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
ad. In pieces; in parts or fragments.
ad. Piece by piece; by little and little in succession.
adj. Made up of parts or pieces; single; separate.
n. A fragment; a scrap.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
By pieces; bit by bit; little by little; gradually: often pleonastically by piecemeal.
In pieces; in or into bits or fragments.
Fragmentary; disconnected.
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ad. a little bit at a time
adj. one thing at a time
Word Usage
"GH: In your new book Makeshift Metropolis, you state that architects should resist the urge to plan grand utopias and should instead embrace smaller interventions that fit more naturally into what you call piecemeal urbanism."