Definitions

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective considered one item at a time; -- contrasted with using general rules for groups of items considered by their class.

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  • adjective separate and distinct from others of the same kind

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Examples

  • Ocean Conservancy collects that data and publishes it every year in our Ocean Trash Index, the only item-by-item, location-by-location accounting of what's trashing our ocean.

    Vikki N. Spruill: Ocean Trash Is No Picnic Vikki N. Spruill 2011

  • After they had individually experienced separate readings with each of the three mediums and we had had the tapes transcribed and prepared for item-by-item scoring of the responses, they would then have the daunting task of carefully rating all of the readings.

    The Sacred Promise Phd Gary E. Schwartz 2011

  • I was going to go through your e-mail item-by-item, but I don't have the energy.

    Peter Sumaruck II 2010

  • After they had individually experienced separate readings with each of the three mediums and we had had the tapes transcribed and prepared for item-by-item scoring of the responses, they would then have the daunting task of carefully rating all of the readings.

    The Sacred Promise Phd Gary E. Schwartz 2011

  • After they had individually experienced separate readings with each of the three mediums and we had had the tapes transcribed and prepared for item-by-item scoring of the responses, they would then have the daunting task of carefully rating all of the readings.

    The Sacred Promise Phd Gary E. Schwartz 2011

  • Mr. Herkert said he expects "a vendor-by-vendor, and in some cases, item-by-item discussion of what does or does not get passed through" to consumers.

    Dilemma Over Pricing John Shipman 2010

  • Ocean Conservancy collects that data and publishes it every year in our Ocean Trash Index, the only item-by-item, location-by-location accounting of what's trashing our ocean.

    Vikki N. Spruill: Ocean Trash Is No Picnic Vikki N. Spruill 2011

  • After they had individually experienced separate readings with each of the three mediums and we had had the tapes transcribed and prepared for item-by-item scoring of the responses, they would then have the daunting task of carefully rating all of the readings.

    The Sacred Promise Phd Gary E. Schwartz 2011

  • The agency's staff members recently completed an item-by-item assessment and are in the final stages of estimating the cost of a full preservation, including digitizing images of the pages.

    Iraq demands return of its Jewish archive 2010

  • Masson proffered a list of Russian goods found in the bazaars of Kabul which he dissected item-by-item in order to demonstrate the superiority of comparable English commodities on each count. 64 His attention to paper is typical:

    Connecting Histories in Afghanistan: Market Relations and State Formation on a Colonial Frontier 2008

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