单词 | re-equip |
释义 | re-equipv. 1. transitive. To equip again; to provide with new equipment. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > supply > provide or supply (something) [verb (transitive)] > provide or supply (a person or thing) with anything > equip or outfit > afresh new-furnish1611 reaccommodate1612 refit1652 re-equip1737 1737 J. Breval Rape of Helen i. 4 You'll pay Contribution..towards re-equipping the young Trojan you have so inhumanly stript. 1767 W. Guthrie Gen. Hist. Scotl. V. 160 In August, his fleet was re-equipped. 1823 R. Southey Hist. Peninsular War I. 743 The government had already begun to take measures for re-equipping them. 1875 H. James in Nation 11 Mar. 176/1 Naturally it completely re-equipped him, and the reader feels a kind of personal relief when he perceives that the exhausted old man obtained some more quinine. 1919 J. L. Garvin Econ. Found. Peace viii. 158 Their industrial centres, wherever existing, have to be re-equipped. 1944 J. S. Huxley On Living in Revol. 148 Neither the profit motive nor political considerations should be allowed to interfere with the job of re-equipping Europe. 1995 Ann. Rep. & Accts. 1994 (Chubb Security plc) 6/3 Our factories and central stations are being re-equipped by major investments in new technology. 2. intransitive. To acquire new equipment. ΚΠ 1894 N.Y. Times 1 Feb. 10/5 The present interests cannot raise the funds to rebuild and re-equip, as the other electric lines are doing. 1967 Lat. Amer. Newslett. (Nexis) 3 Nov. 221 At the same time as it is re-equipping materially.., the Rio stock exchange is creating..a better morality. 1990 I. M. Banks Use of Weapons (1992) iii. 358 Having had..time to reequip, perhaps the forces in..the city would break out. 2007 Richmond (Va.) Democrat (Nexis) 28 June A service member's dwell time is spent retraining, refurbishing, and reequipping prior to being re-deployed. Derivatives re-eˈquipping n. ΚΠ 1848 Harbinger 4 Mar. 144/1 There were upward of 10 prize vessels..waiting condemnation, or re-equipping after having been sold. 1904 Atlanta Constit. 22 Oct. 10/6 Rebuilding and re-equipping in the now consolidated railroad systems of the United States is limited by the supply of money. 2000 J. Aitken Pride & Perjury (2004) x. 129 The expansion, retraining and re-equipping of their armed forces. re-eˈquipment n. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > supply > [noun] > action of providing or supplying > equipping or fitting out > afresh refittinga1661 re-equipment1783 refitment1799 1783 W. Graves Two Lett. (new ed.) i. 21 This squadron came to America in a state more proper to have entered the port of New York for re-equipment than to be led forth directly to battle against a powerful enemy. 1804 J. Larwood No Gun Boats 17 The process of re-equipment being thus obvious. 1889 Voice (N.Y.) 24 Oct. To get education and re-equipment for Christian Work. 1930 New Statesman 27 Dec. 353/2 The Radical opposition to M. Jardieu's plan of economic re-equipment. 2000 R. W. Holder Taunton Cider & Langdons xvi. 88 The need to recoup this unplanned payment inevitably slowed the growth and re-equipment of the company. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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