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fitting-up

fitting-up noun: the act or practice of fitting up or fitting out; preparation or repair work.

Noun

fitting-up (plural fitting-ups)

  1. The act or practice of fitting up or fitting out; preparation or repair work.
    • Heatherlegh, the Doctor, kept, in addition to his regular practice, a hospital on his private account — an arrangement of loose-boxes for Incurables, his friends called it — but it was really a sort of fitting-up shed for craft that had been damaged by stress of weather.1888, Rudyard Kipling, “The Phantom Rickshaw”, in The Phantom 'Rickshaw and Other Tales, Allahabad: A.H. Wheeler and Co., page 7

Forms of fitting-up

pluralfitting-ups

Questions about fitting-up

What does fitting-up mean?
Fitting-up means the act or practice of fitting up or fitting out; preparation or repair work.
What part of speech is fitting-up?
Fitting-up is a noun.
What is the plural of fitting-up?
The plural of fitting-up is fitting-ups.

Words near fitting-up in the dictionary

  1. Fitting subgroups
  2. fitting the bill
  3. fitting together
  4. fitting up
  5. fitting-out
  6. fitting-up
  7. fitting-ups
  8. fittingly
  9. fittingness
  10. fittingnesses
  11. fittings

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