apiece
adv.for each person or thing in a group. You use this after a number to show the price or amount for every single item.
adv.to or for each individual person or item in a set. Typically follows the numeral or noun phrase it modifies.
“The tickets cost twenty dollars apiece.”
“The two companies were fined five million dollars apiece for their roles in the price-fixing scandal.”
“The antique chairs were sold for three hundred pounds apiece, a price that reflected their excellent condition and historical significance.”
Always follows the noun or number it refers to; it cannot be used at the start of a sentence.
Apiece must follow the quantity or price it modifies, rather than preceding it.
“England seamers Ollie Robinson and Josh Tongue came up with a solution after they snared five apiece on the opening day of the first Test against Pakistan.”
“Ipswich won six points from the leading seven sides in 2024-25, though Leicester and Southampton took one apiece.”
From Middle English a pece. By surface analysis, univerbation of a + piece.
Etymology adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.