Antonyms 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

   Antonyms:
   sudden

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

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

   a little bit at a time

   "the research structure has developed piecemeal"

   Antonyms:
   sudden

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

How to use piecemeal in a sentence?

1. 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.

2. 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.

3. Fidel Castro:

   The problem is that the reforms are being implemented in a piecemeal and contradictory fashion, they decentralized distribution, but not production. Food production through to consumption is a chain that is only as strong as its weakest link.

4. Andrea Zaccardi:

   It's very disappointing to see them moving forward with this, it seems that Montana is taking a piecemeal approach to how they view grizzly bear recovery.

5. 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.

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