fit out

verb

transitive verb

: to supply with necessaries or means : furnish, equip, outfit, prepare

friends fitted him out with a new suit and new shoes

fit out a privateer

intransitive verb

: outfit

the ship, a former merchantman, was fitting out as a privateer

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