Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - equip

(equips, equipping, equipped) 1. If you equip a person or thing with something, you give them the tools or equipment that are needed. They become obsessed with trying to equip their vehicles with gadgets to deal with every possible contingency... Owners of restaurants would have to equip them to admit disabled people... The country did not possess the modern guns to equip the reserve army properly. VERB: V n with n, V n to-inf, V n • equipped ...well-equipped research buildings... The greenhouses come equipped with a ventilating system and aluminium screen door... ADJ 2. If something equips you for a particular task or experience, it gives you the skills and attitudes you need for it, especially by educating you in a particular way. Relative poverty, however, did not prevent Martin from equipping himself with an excellent education... A basic two-hour first aid course would equip you to deal with any of these incidents. VERB: V n with n, V n to-inf, also V n for n/-ing • equipped Some students have emotional problems that teachers feel ill equipped to handle... When they leave school, they will be equipped for obtaining office jobs. ADJ: v-link ADJ to-inf, v-link ADJ for n/-ing