Synonyms for piecemeal
ˈpisˌmilpiece·meal

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1. bit-by-bit, in small stages, piecemeal, step-by-step, stepwiseadverb

   one thing at a time

   Synonyms:
   in small stages, step-by-step, bit-by-bit, stepwise

   Antonyms:
   sudden

2. piecemeal, little by little, bit by bit, in stagesadverb

   a little bit at a time

   "the research structure has developed piecemeal"

   Synonyms:
   gradually, in stages, bit by bit, by inches, by small degrees, step by step, little by little

   Antonyms:
   sudden

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1. piecemealadjective

   Synonyms:
   in pieces, by fragments, part by part

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1. List of paraphrases for "piecemeal":

   fragmented, fragmentary, patchy, sporadic, partial, gradual, scattered, disjointed

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1. Kenneth Leung:

   Many of these recommendations are really piecemeal, superficial and general, they cannot just rely on the IPCC report alone to pretend that all these issues have been dealt with and settled.

2. Paul Delaney:

   Those little piecemeal elements of the process – the ones that potentially stand in the way of a farmer being able to buy something, outfit it and have it integrated as soon as possible, those are the ones we really want to make sure are flushed out.

3. Sinan Ulgen:

   For all practical purposes the accession dynamic is dead ... In a way it has become inconsequential as far as Erdogan is concerned, it will be a piecemeal effort to concoct areas of common interest and build structures of cooperation as the need arises ... That has been the case for refugees, that will be the case for economic integration, possibly for cooperation on counter-terrorism, and areas like that.

4. William LeoGrande:

   There’s a danger ... the Biden administration will fall back into the old habit of a piecemeal, quid pro quo approach in which the United States takes only limited steps and demands Cuban concessions on its internal politics, that’s a formula for paralysis.

5. General Boykin:

   They [LGBT activists] are shrewd, they are very well organized and they are unified – which is something the Church is not, the Church is not unified. Therefore, the church fights piecemeal battles rather than doing what the LGBT community did in my case. They came together and launched a major attack and they succeeded.