FITTED OUT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does fitted out mean? 

• FITTED OUT (adjective)
  The adjective FITTED OUT has 2 senses:

1. prepared with proper equipment

2. furnished with essential equipment for a particular occupation or undertaking occupation

  Familiarity information: FITTED OUT used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FITTED OUT (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Prepared with proper equipment

Synonyms:

equipped; fitted out

Context example:

equipped for service in the Arctic

Similar:

prepared (made ready or fit or suitable beforehand)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Furnished with essential equipment for a particular occupation or undertaking occupation

Synonyms:

fitted out; outfitted

Context example:

a well outfitted expedition to the South Pole

Similar:

equipped; furnished (provided with whatever is necessary for a purpose (as furniture or equipment or authority))

 Context examples 

In pursuance of my aunt's kind scheme, I was shortly afterwards fitted out with a handsome purse of money, and a portmanteau, and tenderly dismissed upon my expedition.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

So a tray was fitted out before anyone began, and taken up with the cook's compliments.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)