Definitions for one by one

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. one by one, one after another, one at a time(adverb)

    in single file

    "the prisoners came out one by one"

  2. by the piece, one by one(adverb)

    one piece at a time

    "she sold the plates by the piece"

  3. individually, separately, singly, severally, one by one, on an individual basis(adverb)

    apart from others

    "taken individually, the rooms were, in fact, square"; "the fine points are treated singly"

Wiktionary

  1. one by one(Adverb)

    Individually in succession; one at a time.


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Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

one by one(adjective)

(of a number of people, things etc) one after the other

He examined all the vases one by one.

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