kit out

verb

To provide with equipment.

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Meanings

verbkit out (third-person singular simple present kits out, present participle kitting out, simple past and past participle kitted out)

present singular third person kits out · participle present kitting out · participle past kitted out · past kitted out

  1. UKtransitiveTo provide with equipment.

    It has been kitted out with horizon scanning and other cameras, radar, 180° thermal imaging software, and acoustic monitors.

    2023 February 8, “Network News: World interest in 'Intelligent Train'”, in RAIL, number 976, page 16
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    As the soccer mom-ish leader of nefarious crime cartel the Golden Circle, Poppy rules over the entire global drug trade, which she controls from a jungle lair curiously kitted out as a kitsch 50s utopia, featuring gleaming bowling alleys, diners and nail salons, but also, somewhat confusingly, robot dogs and a captive Elton John.

    2017 September 19, Gwilym Mumford, “Kingsman: The Golden Circle review – spy sequel reaches new heights of skyscraping silliness”, in the Guardian
  2. UKtransitiveTo prepare a boat or vehicle for a voyage or journey.
  3. UKtransitiveTo supply with or dress in a uniform, especially a sports kit.

Synonyms & antonyms

verbsupply with a set of articles or tools

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Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Translations

French aménager, équiper
  • aménagerto provide with equipment
  • équiperto provide with equipment
German amenagieren
  • amenagierento provide with equipment
Italian arredare
  • arredareto provide with equipment
Polish wyposażać, wyposażyć
  • wyposażaćto provide with equipment
  • wyposażyćto provide with equipment
Spanish acondicionar, equipar
  • acondicionarto provide with equipment
  • equiparto provide with equipment
  • proveerto provide with equipment
Cite this entry
APA

kit out. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/kit%20out

MLA

“kit out.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/kit%20out. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “kit out,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/kit%20out.

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