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fitting-ups

fitting-ups is the plural of fitting-up.

Meaning of fitting-up

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

Questions about fitting-ups

What is fitting-ups the plural of?
Fitting-ups is the plural of fitting-up.

Words near fitting-ups in the dictionary

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

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