in small stages

1. 1.

   one thing at a time

   Synonymsbit-by-bitpiecemealstep-by-stepstepwise

   Similargradual

Questions about in small stages

What does in small stages mean?

in small stages means "one thing at a time".

What is another word for in small stages?

Close synonyms include bit-by-bit, piecemeal, step-by-step, stepwise. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is in small stages a common word?

in small stages is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.