Piecemeal

Adjective

 * 1) Made or done in pieces or one stage at a time.
 * 2) * 1947 - George Marshall, The Marshall Plan Speech
 * Such assistance, I am convinced, must not be on a piecemeal basis, as various crises develop.
 * 1) * 1953, James Strachey, translation of Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams, Avon Books, pg. 224:
 * But the copious and intertwined associative links warrant our accepting the former alternative: cyclamen—favourite flower—favourite food— artichokes; pulling to pieces like an artichoke, leaf by leaf (a phrase constantly ringing in our ears in relation to the piecemeal dismemberment of the Chinese Empire)—herbarium—bookworms, whose favourite food is books.

Adverb

 * 1) Piece by piece; in small amounts, stages, or degrees.
 * 2) * 1914 - Saki, The Forbidden Buzzards
 * It’s as bad as selling a man a horse with half a dozen latent vices and watching him discover them piecemeal in the course of the hunting season.
 * 1) Into pieces or parts.
 * 2) * 1888 -  The Whitehall Murder, Daily Telegraph (London), October 03
 * A few years ago also there was the case of Kate Webster, who at Richmond murdered her mistress, and, fiend-like, cut the body up piecemeal, and tried to dispose of it in various ways by small portions.

Thesaurus
adrift, apart, apart from, aside from, asunder, away from, bit by bit, by degrees, by inches, by inchmeal, by snatches, disjointed, drop by drop, fitfully, foot by foot, fragmentary, gradual, gradually, in detail, in driblets, in installments, in lots, in small doses, in snatches, in the abstract, in twain, in two, inch by inch, inchmeal, intermittently, little by little, one by one, part by part, piece by piece, separately, severally, slowly, sporadic, sporadically, step-by-step

Etymology
pecemeale:, from pece: + mele: (from mælum:, dative plural form of mæl:), equivalent to.

Adjective

 * Finnish: vähittäinen,
 * Polish: fragmentaryczny, wyrywkowy


 * Russian: ,
 * Spanish: deslavazado, poco sistemático

Adverb

 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: asteittain, vähä vähältä,
 * Old English:
 * Polish: po trochu, po kawałku


 * Russian: ,
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Spanish: deslavazadamente, desordenadamente


 * Dutch: met stukjes en beetjes
 * Finnish:


 * Polish: na kawałki
 * Russian: ,