apiece
/əˈpiːs
/adverb
To, for, or by each one of a group (used after a noun or an amount): we sold 385 prints at £10 apiece...
- A large crowd watched a very competitive decider and the sides finished level at two goals apiece.
- The home side held their own with one of the league favourites as both teams retired two goals apiece at the break.
- A goal apiece in the extra period meant the teams still couldn't be separated.
Synonyms
each, respectively, per item;
individually, separately
informal a throw
formal severally
Origin
Late Middle English: from a1 + piece.
Rhymes
- metacognitive
- metacommunication
- metacommunicational
- metacommunicative
- metacompiler
- meta-compound
- metaconal
- metacone
- metaconid
- metacontrast
- metaconule
- metacresol
- metacritique
- metacromion
- metacryst
- metacultural
- metaculture
- metacyclic
- metadata
- metadiscourse
- metadyne
- meta-empirical
- metaempirical
- meta-ethical
- meta-ethics