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geared

geared is the simple past and past participle of gear.

Adjective

geared (not comparable)

  1. (in-compounds, often) Fitted with (some kind or number of) gears.
  2. Connected with a motor by gearing.

Meaning of gear

Verb

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

  1. (transitive) To provide with gearing; to fit with gears in order to achieve a desired gear ratio.
  2. (intransitive) To be in gear, come into gear.
  3. To dress; to put gear on; to harness.
  4. (usually) To design or devise (something) so as to be suitable (for a particular type of person or a particular purpose).
    • This shop is not really geared towards people of our age.
  5. To borrow money in order to invest it in assets.

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Words formed from geared

Phrases with geared

Words that rhyme with geared

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Questions about geared

What does geared mean?
Geared means fitted with (some kind or number of) gears.
What is geared the simple past and past participle of?
Geared is the simple past and past participle of gear.
What part of speech is geared?
Geared is an adjective.

Words near geared in the dictionary

  1. gearchanges
  2. Geard
  3. geardo
  4. geardos
  5. geare
  6. geared
  7. geared down
  8. geared to
  9. geared towards
  10. geared turbofan
  11. geared up

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Adapted from Wiktionary: geared (page history and authors); gear (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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