Piecemeal

adv.	1.	In pieces; in parts or fragments. The beasts will tear thee piecemeal. - Tennyson.
	2.	Piece by piece; by little and little in succession. Piecemeal they win, this acre first, than that. - Pope.
a.	1.	Made up of parts or pieces; single; separate.
n.	1.	A fragment; a scrap.

Adj.	1.	piecemeal - one thing at a time Synonyms: bit-by-bit, in small stages, step-by-step, stepwise
Adv.	1.	piecemeal - a little bit at a time; "the research structure has developed piecemeal" Synonyms: bit by bit, in stages, little by little

adrift, apart, apart from, aside from, asunder, away from, bit by bit, by degrees, by inches, by inchmeal, by snatches, disjointed, drop by drop, fitfully, foot by foot, fragmentary, gradual, in detail, in driblets, in installments, in lots, in small doses, in snatches, in the abstract, in twain, in two, inch by inch, inchmeal, intermittently, little by little, one by one, part by part, piece by piece, separately, severally, slowly, sporadic, sporadically, step-by-step

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