fitting-up

noun

The act or practice of fitting up or fitting out; preparation or repair work.

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Meanings

nounfitting-up (plural fitting-ups)

plural fitting-ups

  1. The act or practice of fitting up or fitting out; preparation or repair work.

    Heatherlegh, the Doctor, kept, in addition to his regular practice, a hospital on his private account — an arrangement of loose-boxes for Incurables, his friends called it — but it was really a sort of fitting-up shed for craft that had been damaged by stress of weather.

    1888, Rudyard Kipling, “The Phantom Rickshaw”, in The Phantom 'Rickshaw and Other Tales, Allahabad: A.H. Wheeler and Co., page 7
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APA

fitting-up. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/fitting-up

MLA

“fitting-up.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/fitting-up. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “fitting-up,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/fitting-up.

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