by the piece

by the piece
{adv. phr.} Counted one piece at a time, separately for each single piece. * /John bought boxes full of bags of potato chips and sold them by the piece./ * /Mary made potholders and got paid by the piece./

Dictionary of American idioms. 2013.

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