Piecemeal
adverb
Done or happening in separate parts or stages, not all at once.
The project was completed piecemeal, with different parts being finished at different times.
Often appears as...
- do something piecemeal
- piecemeal approach
adjective
Consisting of parts or stages done at different times, not as a whole.
The new highway was a piecemeal project, with sections opening as they were completed.
Often appears as...
- piecemeal approach
- piecemeal project
adverb
Done or happening in separate parts or stages, not all at once.
The project was completed piecemeal, with different parts being finished at different times.
Often appears as...
- do something piecemeal
- piecemeal approach
adjective
Consisting of parts or stages done at different times, not as a whole.
The new highway was a piecemeal project, with sections opening as they were completed.
Often appears as...
- piecemeal approach
- piecemeal project
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Pro Tip 1/3Progressive Action
Use 'piecemeal' when describing tasks completed in steps over time, rather than all at once.
The team developed the software piecemeal, adding features one by one.
Pro Tip 2/3Partial Completion
Indicates that only parts of something are done, suggesting incompleteness or an ongoing process.
The renovation of the old theater is being done piecemeal.
Pro Tip 3/3Scattered Effort
Suggests work done in an unsystematic or scattered manner, which may not be ideal.
The policy changes were implemented piecemeal, causing confusion.
Pro Tip 1/3Progressive Action
Use 'piecemeal' when describing tasks completed in steps over time, rather than all at once.
The team developed the software piecemeal, adding features one by one.
Pro Tip 2/3Partial Completion
Indicates that only parts of something are done, suggesting incompleteness or an ongoing process.
The renovation of the old theater is being done piecemeal.
Pro Tip 3/3Scattered Effort
Suggests work done in an unsystematic or scattered manner, which may not be ideal.
The policy changes were implemented piecemeal, causing confusion.
Pro Tip 1/3Progressive Action
Use 'piecemeal' when describing tasks completed in steps over time, rather than all at once.
The team developed the software piecemeal, adding features one by one.
Pro Tip 2/3Partial Completion
Indicates that only parts of something are done, suggesting incompleteness or an ongoing process.
The renovation of the old theater is being done piecemeal.
Pro Tip 3/3Scattered Effort
Suggests work done in an unsystematic or scattered manner, which may not be ideal.
The policy changes were implemented piecemeal, causing confusion.
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The Cosmic Connectome PIPE...
or its transportation system while they're being replaced by something more efficient. Changes have to happen piecemeal. And that's how it is for the brain. There is no way for evolution to rip out the ancient interior of the brain because of its imperfections
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Online learning could...
Others were trying to switch careers in middle age, and they needed to take courses piecemeal. They needed half of this degree and a quarter of this one. A single dad writes me and says how he's trying to go to nursing school,
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The Cosmic Connectome PIPE...
or its transportation system while they're being replaced by something more efficient. Changes have to happen piecemeal. And that's how it is for the brain. There is no way for evolution to rip out the ancient interior of the brain because of its imperfections
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Online learning could...
Others were trying to switch careers in middle age, and they needed to take courses piecemeal. They needed half of this degree and a quarter of this one. A single dad writes me and says how he's trying to go to nursing school,
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David Christian
American Historian
Modern scientific knowledge appeared piecemeal. Historians wrote about human history; physicists tackled the material world; and biologists studied the world of living organisms. But there were few links between these disciplines, as researchers focused on getting the details right.
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Jason Reitman
Canadian Director
When you make a movie, you do it so piecemeal. You're doing it, not only scene by scene, out of order, but shot by shot, line by line. And there's this idea that the director has the whole thing in his or her head and they're going to somehow weave it all together in the end.
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Haile Selassie
Ethiopian Statesman
This world was not created piecemeal. Africa was born no later and no earlier than any other geographical area on this globe. Africans, no more and no less than other men, possess all human attributes, talents and deficiencies, virtues and faults.
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Finn Wittrock
American Actor
Film and television are so piecemeal. You do one scene, and then you put it to bed, and then you do a scene that comes before. In a play, you have to go from beginning to end every night, and that's harder, but also more fulfilling in a way.
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Melissa Leong
My journey into the world of work after that was a bit more piecemeal than I would have liked, and it took a while to find the place in the world where I truly felt I belonged.
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Annie Dillard
American Author
I woke in bits, like all children, piecemeal over the years. I discovered myself and the world, and forgot them, and discovered them again.
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John Howe
Canadian Artist
What a folly to dread the thought of throwing away life at once, and yet have no regard to throwing it away by parcels and piecemeal.
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Sydney Greenstreet
English Actor
Pictures are much harder to do than the theater... You're at the mercy of the camera angles and the piecemeal technique.
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Iain Duncan Smith
British Politician
After years of piecemeal reform the current welfare system is complex and unfair.
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Smriti Irani
Indian Politician
My belief is that policy cannot be piecemeal.
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David Christian
American Historian
Modern scientific knowledge appeared piecemeal. Historians wrote about human history; physicists tackled the material world; and biologists studied the world of living organisms. But there were few links between these disciplines, as researchers focused on getting the details right.
Quote examples
Jason Reitman
Canadian Director
When you make a movie, you do it so piecemeal. You're doing it, not only scene by scene, out of order, but shot by shot, line by line. And there's this idea that the director has the whole thing in his or her head and they're going to somehow weave it all together in the end.
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Haile Selassie
Ethiopian Statesman
This world was not created piecemeal. Africa was born no later and no earlier than any other geographical area on this globe. Africans, no more and no less than other men, possess all human attributes, talents and deficiencies, virtues and faults.
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Finn Wittrock
American Actor
Film and television are so piecemeal. You do one scene, and then you put it to bed, and then you do a scene that comes before. In a play, you have to go from beginning to end every night, and that's harder, but also more fulfilling in a way.
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Melissa Leong
My journey into the world of work after that was a bit more piecemeal than I would have liked, and it took a while to find the place in the world where I truly felt I belonged.
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Annie Dillard
American Author
I woke in bits, like all children, piecemeal over the years. I discovered myself and the world, and forgot them, and discovered them again.
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John Howe
Canadian Artist
What a folly to dread the thought of throwing away life at once, and yet have no regard to throwing it away by parcels and piecemeal.
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Sydney Greenstreet
English Actor
Pictures are much harder to do than the theater... You're at the mercy of the camera angles and the piecemeal technique.
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Iain Duncan Smith
British Politician
After years of piecemeal reform the current welfare system is complex and unfair.
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Smriti Irani
Indian Politician
My belief is that policy cannot be piecemeal.
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