What does equipping mean?
Definitions for equipping
equip·ping
This dictionary definitions page includes all the possible meanings, example usage and translations of the word equipping.
Princeton's WordNet
arming, armament, equippingnoun
the act of equiping with weapons in preparation for war
ChatGPT
equipping
Equipping refers to the process of providing necessary tools, resources, skills, knowledge, or abilities to effectively perform a specific task, activity, or role. This could apply in various contexts such as a professional setting where employees are given the necessary tools and training to perform their job or in a personal setting where an individual equips themselves with the needed resources for a particular project or task.
Webster Dictionary
Equipping
of Equip
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Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of equipping in Chaldean Numerology is: 2
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of equipping in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6
Examples of equipping in a Sentence
We’re training and equipping several brigades of mechanized infantry — that’s a pretty substantial capability, in addition to that, additional artillery, and so they’ll have the ability to breach Russian defenses and maneuver, and I think that will create a different dynamic.
We have a major challenge facing us in fighting Daesh, we hope for assistance on training and equipping our troops.
We have the availability of overwhelming air power, and we have boots on the ground that are ready and eager to fight -- the Peshmerga -- and they lack sufficient tools and equipment to do so. we cannot police a region that won't police itself, and so the ground troops need to be from the region, but the United States's strong support, via the air campaign, via training and equipping, helping guide the air campaign to make it effective -- that's what we should do.
This is a very fragile ceasefire and we need to return to a ceasefire situation, i think that what we see is a pattern that matches previous patterns during ceasefires... We see training, we see re-equipping, we see new forces, new money, organisation, increased command and control, all these things are in a pattern across the past several times where we have seen a push( offensive).
We cannot police a region that won't police itself, and so the ground troops need to be from the region, but the United States's strong support, via the air campaign, via training and equipping, helping guide the air campaign to make it effective -- that's what we should do.
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