OUTFITTING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does outfitting mean? 

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

1. the act of renovating and fitting out a ship

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• OUTFITTING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of renovating and fitting out a ship

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

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

armament; arming; equipping (the act of equiping with weapons in preparation for war)

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

refit (outfitting a ship again (by repairing or replacing parts))

Derivation:

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

 Context examples 

Each had put an equal share of capital into the outfitting, and the profits were to be divided equally.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)