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apiece

/əˈpis/ adverb C1
  1. Following a noun or noun phrase: by, for, or to each one; each by itself. · Near-synonyms: all, individually, singly; piecemeal, piecewise· These melons cost a dollar apiece.
  2. For an undetermined distance. · down the road apiece
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Meanwhile the count had arrived at his house; it had taken him six minutes to perform the distance, but these six minutes were sufficient to induce twenty young men who knew the price of the equipage they had been unable to purchase themselves, to put their horses in a gallop in order to see the rich foreigner who could afford to give 20,000 francs apiece for his horses.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 450 · C1
“Your excellency has 5,050,000 francs in your pocket; that will be fifty fowls at 100,000 francs apiece, and half a fowl for the 50,000.”
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 1081 · C1

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