EQUIPPING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does equipping mean? 

• EQUIPPING (noun)
  The noun EQUIPPING has 1 sense:

1. the act of equiping with weapons in preparation for war

  Familiarity information: EQUIPPING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EQUIPPING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of equiping with weapons in preparation for war

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

armament; arming; equipping

Hypernyms ("equipping" is a kind of...):

militarisation; militarization; mobilisation; mobilization (act of assembling and putting into readiness for war or other emergency:)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "equipping"):

outfitting (the act of renovating and fitting out a ship)

rearmament (the act of arming again)

Derivation:

equip (provide with (something) usually for a specific purpose)

 Context examples 

Researchers followed 82 newly licensed teen drivers over a one-year period, equipping their vehicles with cameras and GPS technology to track the driver’s activity and environment.

(Reaching for objects while driving may raise teen crash risk nearly sevenfold, National Institutes of Health)