Meaning & use
equipping
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Supplying someone or something with the necessary items, tools, or skills for a particular purpose.
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The charity is equipping local schools with new computers.
The training program focuses on equipping graduates with practical job skills.
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Equipping is the present participle of 'equip,' from the Old French esquiper, originally meaning 'to fit out a ship.'
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