outfitting

noun

1. an assemblage of articles that equip a person for a particular task, role, trade, etc.: an explorer’s outfit.
2. a set of usually matching or harmonious garments and accessories worn together; coordinated costume; ensemble: a new spring outfit.
3. a set of articles for any purpose: a cooking outfit.
4. a group associated in an undertaking requiring close cooperation, as a military unit.
5. a business firm engaged in a particular form of commercial enterprise: a construction outfit.
6. any company, party, or set.
7. the act of fitting out or equipping for any purpose, as for a voyage, journey, or expedition.
8. mental, physical, or moral equipment.

verb (used with object), out·fit·ted, out·fit·ting.

9. to furnish with an outfit, equipment, etc.; fit out; equip: to outfit an expedition to the South Pole.
10. Nautical. to finish equipping (a vessel) at a dock.

verb (used without object), out·fit·ted, out·fit·ting.

11. to furnish oneself with an outfit.

noun

1. a set of articles or equipment for a particular task, occupation, etc
2. a set of clothes, esp a carefully selected one
3. informal any group or association regarded as a cohesive unit, such as a military company, business house, etc
4. the act of fitting out
5. Canadian (formerly) the annual shipment of trading goods and supplies sent by a fur company to its trading posts

verb -fits, -fitting or -fitted

6. to furnish or be furnished with an outfit, equipment, etc

v.1840, from outfit (n.). Related: Outfitted; outfitting; outfitter. n.1769, “act of fitting out (a ship, etc.) for an expedition,” from out + fit (v.). Sense of “articles and equipment required for an expedition” first attested 1787, American English; meaning “a person’s clothes” is first recorded 1852; sense of “group of people” is from 1883.