equip meaning

Verb: equip (equipped,equipping)  i'kwip

1. Provide with (something) usually for a specific purpose
   "The expedition was equipped with proper clothing, food, and other necessities"
   - fit, fit out, outfit 
2. Provide with abilities or understanding
   "She was never equipped to be a dancer"

Derived forms: equipped, equipping, equips

See also: equipage, equipment, equipping

Type of: enable, furnish, provide, render, supply

Encyclopedia: Equip

[Business]
verb [+ obj] (-pp-) (often be equipped)

to supply sb/sth with what is needed for a particular purpose or task:

We needed €650 000 to build and equip the manufacturing plant.

a fully equipped office

The phone comes equipped with a built-in digital camera.

His previous experience makes him well equipped for the job.

Examples

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1. he equips the story with a map, and adds documentary chapters.
2. those variants equip an organism specially well to cope with the exigencies of the environments.
3. our early postwar successes did not equip us for a new era of more complex problems.
4. the average shore employment requires as much as forty years to equip a man with this sort of an education.
5. in his preface he claims an "anxious desire to speak the unvarnished truth". he equips the story with a map, and adds documentary chapters.