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. 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.

3. Pope Francis:

   Today we are dismayed to see how in the Middle East and elsewhere in the world many of our brothers and sisters are persecuted, tortured and killed for their faith in Jesus, in this third world war, waged piecemeal, which we are now experiencing, a form of genocide is taking place, and it must end.

4. Catherine Rampell:

   Well, it's partly what you just mentioned, it's partly that we don't have majority rule in the Senate … [so the Democrats] have to cram everything into this one major piece of legislation … They have to do climate, they have to do paid leave, they have to do child care, they have to do green energy tax credits for cars and things like that. They have to put everything into this legislation because they can't do piecemeal regular-order bills because the Senate doesn't function like that way anymore.

5. Pope Francis:

   It's piecemeal but the pieces are getting larger, and are concentrated in places which were already hot, today a wider war would destroy, I won't say half of humanity, but a large part of humanity and culture. It would be terrible. I don't think humanity today could bear it.