English Dictionary

piecemeal

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈpiːs.miːl/

副詞

比較不可

Piece by piece; in small amounts, stages, or degrees. / Into pieces or parts.

日本語の意味

部分ごとに、少しずつ進行する様子 / いくつかの部分に分割された状態 / 段階的に、一部分ずつ進められる様子

We repaired the old fence piecemeal over the summer to spread out the cost.

費用を分散するため、夏の間に古いフェンスを少しずつ修理しました。

意味（1）

Piece by piece; in small amounts, stages, or degrees.

It’s as bad as selling a man a horse with half a dozen latent vices and watching him discover them piecemeal in the course of the hunting season.

意味（2）

Into pieces or parts.

Stoop villaine, ſtoop, ſtoope for ſo he bids, That may commaund thee peecemeale to be torne, Or ſcattered like the lofty Cedar trees. Strooke with the voice of thundring Iupiter.