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fit out

 
Idioms: fit out
 

Also, fit up. Equip or supply what is needed, as in They promised to fit out the expedition free of charge. This expression, dating from the late 1600s, originally was confined to furnishing a ship or other vessel with supplies, repairs, and the like. By the 1720s it was being used more broadly, as it still is.


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Architecture: fit out, fit up
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To provide the tenants within a building with building services, including heating, lighting, water supply, drainage services, gas supply, electrical supply, fire protection, garbage disposal services, waste disposal services, air-conditioning, and security protection.


 
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Note: click on a word meaning below to see its connections and related words.

The verb has 2 meanings:

Meaning #1: provide with (something) usually for a specific purpose
  Synonyms: equip, fit, outfit

Meaning #2: provide with clothes or put clothes on
  Synonyms: dress, clothe, enclothe, garb, raiment, tog, garment, habilitate, apparel


 
 

 

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Idioms. The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer. Copyright © 1997 by The Christine Ammer 1992 Trust. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.  Read more
Architecture. McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Architecture and Construction. Copyright © 2003 by McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved.  Read more
WordNet. WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.  Read more