Synonym: bit by bit, bit-by-bit, in small stages, in stages, little by little, step-by-step, stepwise. Similar words: piece, a piece of, timepiece, go to pieces, mouthpiece, nosepiece, piece rate, piece together. Meaning: ['pɪːsmɪːl] 
adj. one thing at a time. adv. a little bit at a time.
adj. one thing at a time. adv. a little bit at a time. 
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(1) Alterations have been carried out on a piecemeal basis.
(2) The buildings have been adapted in a piecemeal fashion .
(3) The new fire regulations have been introduced piecemeal.
(4) The reforms were implemented piecemeal.
(5) Unfortunately(Sentence dictionary), everything is being done piecemeal.
(6) I've only had a piecemeal account of what happened.
(7) The companies were broken up and sold off piecemeal over several years.
(8) The government plans to sell the railways piecemeal to the private sector.
(9) To his disappointments it developed in a piecemeal fashion.
(10) Improvements have been largely piecemeal, without adequate government support.
(11) The use of resources was a piecemeal affair.
(12) In the interim, the Stock Exchange implemented piecemeal reform.
(13) No piecemeal liberal reform will make one iota of difference.
(14) Milosevic has granted piecemeal concessions while sowing the kind of confusion that he has used in the past to stymie opponents.
(15) Rather than do this piecemeal over several years,[sentencedict.com] Mr Moore chose to complete the process in five months flat.
(16) Elsewhere slum clearance activity was much more piecemeal and avoided spectacular set pieces.
(17) Why is it fair to pass piecemeal reforms for powerful industries?
(18) Similar disasters are scattered piecemeal all over Britain, on bomb sites and over the slums they were built to clear.
(19) Three different ways can be identified in which piecemeal improvements to the conceptualisation of the soil erosion problem have been transcended.
(20) In the meantime, however, Dole has begun a piecemeal process of tax cutting around the edges.
(21) Piecemeal Development Attempting to build a school-to-work system company by company and school by school is painfully slow.
(22) A lack of narrative drive leaves the reader with piecemeal vignettes.
(23) It is only during this century that statutory services have been developed and they came in a very piecemeal fashion.
(24) The Conservatives also promised to: reform the tangled web of income-related benefits which had grown up piecemeal over forty years.
(25) The cuckoo's adaptations were simply too perfect to have evolved bit by bit, in piecemeal fashion.
(26) The proposals are intended as a package and not for piecemeal negotiation.
(27) By contrast, the norm for curriculum change is for it to occur piecemeal and gradually over long periods.
(28) But while Congress has wrestled with that issue, there has been only piecemeal deregulation.
(29) In practice this ordinance brought about little immediate change because it was introduced piecemeal into various districts.
(30) Radio nan Gaidheal will broadcast a single morning block to the Highlands and Islands, replacing the current piecemeal pattern of programmes.
More similar words: piece, a piece of, timepiece, go to pieces, mouthpiece, nosepiece, piece rate, piece together, masterpiece, a piece of cake, mincemeat, make mincemeat of, pie chart, niece, december, meat pie, cement, meal, mealy, cemetery, placement, enforcement, effacement, inducement, replacement, enhancement, advancement, come along, come alive, demean.