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equipment
Equipment is defined as whatever a person, group or thing needs for a given purpose.
(noun)An example of equipment is a tow hitch for towing a trailer.
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See equipment in Webster's New World College Dictionary
noun
- an equipping or being equipped
- whatever a person, group, or thing is equipped with; the special things needed for some purpose; supplies, furnishings, apparatus, etc.
- goods used in providing service, esp. in transportation, as the rolling stock of a railroad
- one's abilities, knowledge, etc.
See equipment in American Heritage Dictionary 4
noun
- The act of equipping or the state of being equipped.
- Something with which a person, an organization, or a thing is equipped.
- The rolling stock especially of a transportation system.
- The qualities or traits that make up the mental and emotional resources of an individual.
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