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In stages   /ɪn stˈeɪdʒəz/   Listen
In stages

adverb
1.
A little bit at a time.  Synonyms: bit by bit, little by little, piecemeal.






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"In stages" Quotes from Famous Books



... is an immense shaft tapering gradually toward the top. It is built in stages, with a gallery round each. Each stage is different. In one it is fluted with round columns like a huge mass of basalt. In another the columns are angular; and in the next, round and angular alternately. ...
— In Times of Peril • G. A. Henty

... 17) in the Decorated style are nearly always worked in stages, and a niche frequently figures on the face of the buttress. Crocketed canopies and other carved decorations are common, and in large buildings they usually terminate in pinnacles, which ...
— Our Homeland Churches and How to Study Them • Sidney Heath

... to meet the river comes Douw's Point, once the head of steamboat navigation; passengers for Albany and beyond going forward in stages after crossing the river in a horse ferryboat. It is whispered that a few rods below the point Captain Kidd buried treasures. Old Volkert P. Douw was so staunch a patriot that he refused to hold office under the English, and gave his money and his ...
— The New York and Albany Post Road • Charles Gilbert Hine



Words linked to "In stages" :   piecemeal



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