Definition of "equip"

equip

/ɪˈkwɪp/

verb
third-person singular simple present equips, present participle equipping, simple past equipped, past participle equipped or (archaic) equipt
1. (transitive) To supply with something necessary in order to carry out a specific action or task; to provide with (e.g. weapons, provisions, munitions, rigging)
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  More than 40,000 would-be migrants to Europe have been intercepted at sea since Italy began paying and equipping the Libyan coastguard to do so in 2017.
  2020 February 13, Roland Oliphant, “'I have lost four years of my life': the desperate migrants stuck in squalid Libyan camps”, in The Telegraph‎
  it is no more than proper that you should equip us with a vessel in which to pursue the journey which you interrupted
  1921, Rafael Sabatini, In Destiny's Clutch
  A semicircular plate, with the numbers in multiples of five up to thirty miles an hour, is equipped with a pointer, which indicates accurately the speed of the car.
  1916, “Indicator Tells Pursuing Police Speed of Automobile”, in Popular Science Monthly/Volume 88
  Gave orders for equipping a considerable fleet.
  1698-1699, Edmund Ludlow, Memoirs
2. (transitive) To dress up; to array; to clothe.
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  The country are led astray in following the town, and equipped in a ridiculous habit, when they fancy themselves in the height of the mode.
  1711 July 13 (Gregorian calendar), [Joseph Addison; Richard Steele et al.], “MONDAY, July 2, 1711”, in The Spectator, number 129; republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a New Edition, […], volume I, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton & Company, 1853
3. (transitive) To prepare (someone) with a skill.
4. (transitive, gaming) To equip oneself with (an item); to bring (equipment) into active use.
  Quotations
  Take it down from a distance with a magic spell, or equip your sword and attack it at close range.
  2002, Prima Temp Authors, PlayStation 2: Hot Strategies for Cool Games, page 69

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