apiece

From Middle English a pece.^[1][2] By surface analysis, univerbation of a +‎ piece.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /əˈpiːs/
• (US) IPA^(key): /əˈpis/

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• Rhymes: -iːs

apiece (not comparable)

1. Each by itself; for or to each one

   These melons cost a dollar apiece.

   • 1943 January and February, Chas. S. Lake, “Some C.M.Es. I Have Known: IV—H. A. Ivatt”, in Railway Magazine, page 30:

     The engines were built in the Doncaster works at what I believe to have been the low cost, even for those days, of £2,500 apiece, [...].

2. (Maine) An undetermined distance.

• “apiece”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.