equipment

The tools, machines, or other things you need for a job or activity.

• We need new equipment.
• She checked all the climbing equipment before leaving.
• Does the price include safety equipment?

Similar words: gear, kit

Common phrases: sports equipment, safety equipment, equipment for camping, gardening equipment

The process of providing someone or something with what they need, or the state of having it.

• The equipment of the fleet was costly.
• He supervised the equipment of troops for winter.
• The report described the complete equipment of the expedition.

How to use it: equipment of someone/something (The equipment of the expedition took several months.)

Similar words: equipping, outfitting

Common phrases: equipment of ships, equipment of troops