eaches

English

Noun

eaches

1. (operations, philosophy) plural of each
   • 1995, Ronald Hughes, Zinc It!: Interfacing Third Party Libraries with Crossplatform GUI'S, John Gordon Burke Publisher, Inc., →ISBN, page 4-5:

     The client company sold pipe both in tons (wholesale) and eaches (retail).

   • 2012, Arthur V. Hill, “unit of measure”, in edited by Barry Render, The Encyclopedia of Operations Management, FT Press, →ISBN, page 373:

     For example, a firm might purchase an item in pallets, stock it in cases, and sell it in “eaches” (units).

   • 2014, James A. Cooke, Protean Supply Chains: Ten Dynamics of Supply and Demand Alignment, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., →ISBN, page 101:

     It should be noted that some retailers, especially those that started out as catalog merchants, do have experience in filling individual orders or eaches.

   • 1996, Samuel S. Hill, “Interpretation and Conclusion”, in One Name But Several Faces: Variety in Popular Christian Denominations in Southern History, Athens, Georgia: The University of Georgia Press, →ISBN, page 106:

     I have examined three prominent Protestant name groups in the American South: the Baptists, the “Christians,” and the “of God” bodies. Further, within each cluster I have considered several “eaches” that identify themselves by the cluster’s common name.

Anagrams

• achees, chasee