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(all, every): The phrase beginning witheach identifies a set of items wherein the words followingeach identify the individual elements by their shared characteristics. The phrase is grammatically singular in number, so if the phrase is the subject of a sentence, its verb is conjugated into a third-person singular form. Similarly, any pronouns that refer to the noun phrase are singular:
Each candidatehas 49 votes.
Each voter must decide forherself.
Each of is usually followed by a plural noun:Each of the men may... Following it with a series of singular nouns is unusual in standard usage but common in legal usage:Each of Smith, Jones, and Baker may file a brief by... In standard usage, this would most commonly be expressed asSmith, Jones, and Baker mayeach file...
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Individually;separately;used in a sentence with a plural subject to indicate that the action or state described by the verb applies to all members of the described group individually, rather than collectively to the entire group.
We ordered half a chickeneach, but weeach got a whole one.
You areeach right in a different way.
There are three of us and we have five dollarseach, so that means we've got 15 dollars.
Swedish:(per) styck(sv),var(sv),à(sv) (placedbefore the price/weight/measurement and used when you have adefined number of something, for exampleTre äpplen à 50 cent.),vardera(sv)
(operations,philosophy) An individual item: the least quantitative unit in a grouping.
1999, William S. Paasche, Thomas D. Kerker,System and method for managing recurring orders in a computer network, US Patent7359871(PDF version),page50:
In one embodiment, there is an additional charge when ordering products as an “each” compared to the unit cost of the item when ordered by the case.
2007, David E. Mulcahy,Eaches or Pieces Order Fulfillment, Design, and Operations Handbook (Series on resource management),Auerbach Publications,→ISBN,page385:
Aneach, piece, single item, or individual item package.
2012, Arthur V. Hill, “unit of measure”, in Barry Render, editor,The Encyclopedia of Operations Management,FT Press,→ISBN,page373:
The commonly used term “each” means that each individual item is one unit.
2008, Frederick Neuhouser,Rousseau's theodicy of self-love, Oxford University Press,→ISBN,page238:
Amour-propre would be able to take an interest in assuming the standpoint of reason, then, if applying 'each' to oneself in rational deliberation were simultaneously bound up with publicly establishing oneself as an 'each'
