Definitions for equip

equip e·quip

Spelling: [ih-kwip]
IPA: /ɪˈkwɪp/

Equip is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 16 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 31 anagrams from letters in equip (eipqu).

Definitions for equip

verb (used with object)

  1. to furnish or provide with whatever is needed for use or for any undertaking; fit out, as a ship or army:
  2. to dress; array:
  3. to furnish with intellectual or emotional resources; prepare:

Origin of equip

1515-25; Middle French equiper, Old French esquiper to fit out, equip, probably Old Norse skipa to put in order, arrange, man (a ship)

Examples for equip

This year, the president is asking Congress for $500 million to train and equip the very rebels Obama thinks are hopeless.

Are we to equip them with a metaphysic, or exclude them from the portals of art?

In other words, why not equip these suits with a small invisibility apparatus?

So far, no action has been taken to equip airliners with this technology.

So we lingered but the two days necessary to equip ourselves.

This is not more than one-tenth of what would be needed to equip the railroads.

He then called on Congress to authorize a program to train and equip 5,000 rebels per year in Saudi Arabia, which they did.

Officials and experts acknowledge that the plan to train and equip a new rebel army from scratch will take years.

The next question was to equip me with a uniform—but what should it be?

German defense contractors have helped train and equip the Russian military.

Word Value for equip
Scrable

16

Words with friends

18

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