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Outfit   /ˈaʊtfˌɪt/   Listen
noun
Outfit  n.  
1.
A fitting out, or equipment, as of a ship for a voyage, or of a person for an expedition in an unoccupied region or residence in a foreign land; the expense of, or allowance made for, equipment, as by the government of the United States to a diplomatic agent going abroad.
2.
Hence: Any assemblage of objects required for or used in performing a task; things required as equipment for a task.
3.
A complete ensemble of clothing, selected to form a matching set; a coordinated costume; as, a new Easter outfit.
4.
A business enterprise; as, what outfit do you work for?. (informal)
5.
Any team or party of people.






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"Outfit" Quotes from Famous Books



... the well-known ship designer, suggests the construction of a pontoon to be carried on the after end of the vessel and to be made of sectional air-tight compartments. One compartment would accommodate the wireless outfit. Another compartment would hold drinking water, and still another ...
— Sinking of the Titanic - and Great Sea Disasters • Various

... who was occasionally flowery, "sittin' up as straight as this washboard, and his silk hat shinin' in the sun; but exceptin' the car, which was workin' hard and gettin' nowhere, the whole outfit in ...
— K • Mary Roberts Rinehart

... money from the Freedmen's outfit, which was 'stablished in Columbia. The white men who set it up and administered the Freedmen's funds and rations let some of their pets have much of it, while others got little or nothin'. An' existence become ...
— Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves • Works Projects Administration

... so that when Juniper quitted Greymoor Park, he did so apparently of his own choice. He had contrived, while in the baronet's service, to appropriate to himself many small valuables of a portable character. These he managed safely to dispose of, and with the money purchased an outfit and paid his passage to South Australia. His shallow brains had been fired with the idea of making his fortune at the diggings. He felt sure that, if he could find Frank Oldfield, he should soon ingratiate himself with him, and that he might ...
— Frank Oldfield - Lost and Found • T.P. Wilson

... Industry, U.S. Department of Agriculture.) "Of all known methods of treating milk fever, the injection of sterile atmospheric air into the udder is by far the most simple and practicable as well as the most efficacious and harmless one at our disposal." Pratts Milk Fever Outfit for air treatment should always be kept on hand. The price is $3. This treatment has cured 97 per ...
— Pratt's Practical Pointers on the Care of Livestock and Poultry • Pratt Food Co.


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