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fit up

vb (tr, adverb)

1. (often foll by with) to equip or provide: the optician will soon fit you up with a new pair of glasses.

2. slang Brit to incriminate (someone) on a false charge; frame: he was fitted up for the bank job.

3. (Theatre) theatre slang a stage and accessories that can be erected quickly for plays

4. slang Brit a deliberate attempt to make an innocent person seem guilty of a crime

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verb

1. To cause to be ready, as for use, consumption, or a special purpose:

fix, make, prepare, prime, ready.

2. To supply what is needed for some activity or purpose:

accouter, appoint, equip, fit out (or up), furnish, gear, outfit, rig, turn out.

3. To have a proper or suitable place:

belong, go.

4. To be compatible or in correspondence:

accord, agree, check, chime, comport with, conform, consist, correspond, harmonize, match, square, tally.

Informal: jibe.

Archaic: quadrate.

5. To make or become suitable to a particular situation or use:

acclimate, acclimatize, accommodate, adapt, adjust, conform, fashion, reconcile, square, suit, tailor.

6. To conform to another, especially in size and shape:

dovetail.

7. To be in keeping with:

become, befit, conform, correspond, go with, match, suit.

phrasal verb
fit out or up

To supply what is needed for some activity or purpose:

accouter, appoint, equip, fit, furnish, gear, outfit, rig, turn out.

adjective

1. Suitable for a particular person, condition, occasion, or place:

appropriate, apt, becoming, befitting, correct, felicitous, fitting, happy, meet, proper, right, tailor-made.

2. Suited to one's end or purpose:

appropriate, befitting, convenient, expedient, good, meet, proper, suitable, tailor-made, useful.

3. Satisfying certain requirements, as for selection:

eligible, fitted, qualified, suitable, worthy.

4. Consistent with prevailing or accepted standards or circumstances:

appropriate, deserved, due, fitting, just, merited, proper, right, rightful, suitable.

5. Having good health:

hale, healthful, healthy, hearty, right, sound, well, whole, wholesome.

Idioms: fit as a fiddle, hale and hearty, in fine fettle.

Translations

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vt sep

(= fix up) → anbringen; (= assemble) → zusammensetzen or -bauen

(= supply with) → ausstatten; (with implements, weapons etc) → ausrüsten, ausstatten; to fit somebody/something up with something → jdn/etw mit etw versehen or ausstatten

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