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gear to

gear to verb: to design or adapt so as to suit (someone).

Verb

gear to (third-person singular simple present gears to, present participle gearing to, simple past and past participle geared to)

  1. To design or adapt so as to suit (someone).

Forms of gear to

third-person singular presentgears to
present participlegearing to
past participlegeared to
pastgeared to
alternative formgear towards

Questions about gear to

What does gear to mean?
Gear to means to design or adapt so as to suit (someone).
What part of speech is gear to?
Gear to is a verb.
What is the past tense of gear to?
The past tense of gear to is geared to.

Words near gear to in the dictionary

  1. gear ratios
  2. gear shift
  3. gear shifts
  4. gear stick
  5. gear sticks
  6. gear to
  7. gear towards
  8. gear train
  9. gear trains
  10. gear up
  11. gear wheel

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