equipped; equipping
1
: to furnish for service or action by appropriate provisioning
equip an army
3
: to make ready : prepare
wasn't equipped to handle the pressures of the job
Examples of equip in a Sentence
Verb
More money was needed to train and equip the troops.
Equipped with a hoe and a shovel, I headed for the garden.
Her training has equipped her to deal with emergencies.
She is well-equipped to deal with emergencies.
Those students are not equipped for the challenges of college.
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Ashley Strickland,
CNN Money,
3 July 2026
The complaint, obtained by PEOPLE, claims the Tesla — equipped with Autopilot and Full Self-Driving features — was defective and unsafe for normal use when it was sold.
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Paloma Chavez,
PEOPLE,
3 July 2026
The airplane was not equipped with a crashworthy voice or data recorder, like those that record flight data on commercial planes, nor was it required to be, investigators said.
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ABC News,
3 July 2026
Austria has just launched one of the world’s 100 fastest supercomputers, which is equipped with 1,088 Nvidia chips and can carry out 45,110 trillion calculations per second.
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Georgina Jedikovska,
Interesting Engineering,
3 July 2026
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Verb
It’s equipped with about 20 feet (6 meters) of solar panels and a trio of robotic arms designed to grab Swift.
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Ashley Strickland,
CNN Money,
3 July 2026
The complaint, obtained by PEOPLE, claims the Tesla — equipped with Autopilot and Full Self-Driving features — was defective and unsafe for normal use when it was sold.
—
Paloma Chavez,
PEOPLE,
3 July 2026
The airplane was not equipped with a crashworthy voice or data recorder, like those that record flight data on commercial planes, nor was it required to be, investigators said.
—
ABC News,
3 July 2026
Austria has just launched one of the world’s 100 fastest supercomputers, which is equipped with 1,088 Nvidia chips and can carry out 45,110 trillion calculations per second.
—
Georgina Jedikovska,
Interesting Engineering,
3 July 2026
See All Example Sentences for equip
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“Equip.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/equip. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.
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