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toolkit

US/ˈtulˌkɪt/

toolkit noun: a set of tools kept together, especially comprising all the tools suitable for some particular type of work.

toolkit: a set of tools kept together, especially comprising all the tools suitable for some particular type...
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Noun

toolkit (plural toolkits)

  1. A set of tools kept together, especially comprising all the tools suitable for some particular type of work.
    • The culture of Ice Age humanity expresses a steady growth in the complexity of the tool kit, and a steady growth in complexity of artistic development.1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 119
  2. (broadly) A set of personal abilities, skills, or resources to draw on.
    • a financial planning toolkit for small businesses
    • My hope is that this book will familiarize readers with tools for analyzing historical and contemporary mechanisms of social differentiation, ethnoracial division, and symbolic structural inequality. My belief is that boundary theory offers the very best tool kit for this kind of work.2006, Matt Wray, Not Quite White, page 7
  3. A set of software tools or components.
    • Morgan Computing Co.'s Disk Toolkit is the perfect program for speed demons who want a more flexible way to wield DEBUG's power.1986, PC Mag, volume 5, number 17, page 221
  4. (India) A set of guidelines or instructions.
    Synonyms:
    playbook
  5. (India, derogatory) A set of instructions that is used to organize a protest.

toolkit meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu

toolkit in Hindi

टूलकिट

toolkit in Tamil

கருவித்தொகுதி

toolkit in Marathi

set of software components
टूलकिट ṭūlkiṭ

toolkit in Urdu

ٹول کٹ
More languagesFewer languages
toolkit in Bengali
টুলকিট
toolkit in Telugu
టూల్కిట్, టూల్ కిట్
toolkit in Malayalam
ടൂൾകിറ്റ്, ടൂൾ കിറ്റ്
toolkit in Kannada
ಟೂಲ್ಕಿಟ್
toolkit in Punjabi
ਟੂਲਕਿੱਟ, ਟੂਲਕਿਟ
toolkit in Gujarati
ટૂલકિટ, ટૂલકીટ
toolkit in Odia
ଟୁଲକିଟ୍, ଟୁଲ୍କିଟ୍, ଟୁଲକିଟ
toolkit in Nepali
टूलकिट, टुलकिट
toolkit in Arabic
المعدات, الأدوات

Examples of toolkit in a sentence

  • Anthony Lambert's review of the Cycle-Rail toolkit was, to this non-cyclist, of interest - particularly the recognition of tourism support and opportunities.2023 December 13, “Open Access: Access for cyclists and tourists... opportunities for the railway”, in RAIL, number 998, page 63:
  • Prior to the Great Recession, active management of the long-bond portfolio was not a major feature of most central banks' toolkits, Japan being one notable exception.2023, Eric Sims, Jing Cynthia Wu, and Ji Zhang, The Four-Equation New Keynesian Model, The Review of Economics and Statistics 105(4), pp....

Synonyms of toolkit

Forms of toolkit

pluraltoolkits
alternative formtool kit

Origin of toolkit

From tool + kit.

Questions about toolkit

What does toolkit mean?
Toolkit means a set of tools kept together, especially comprising all the tools suitable for some particular type of work.
What is toolkit in Hindi?
Toolkit in Hindi is टूलकिट. See Toolkit meaning in Hindi.
How do you use toolkit in a sentence?
Anthony Lambert's review of the Cycle-Rail toolkit was, to this non-cyclist, of interest - particularly the recognition of tourism support and opportunities.
What part of speech is toolkit?
Toolkit is a noun.
How do you pronounce toolkit?
Toolkit is pronounced /ˈtulˌkɪt/ (US).
What is the plural of toolkit?
The plural of toolkit is toolkits.

Words near toolkit in the dictionary

  1. tooling up
  2. toolings
  3. Toolis
  4. Toolises
  5. toolishness
  6. toolkit
  7. toolkits
  8. Toolleen
  9. toolless
  10. toollike
  11. toolmaker

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Adapted from Wiktionary: toolkit (page history and authors); toolkit (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); toolkit (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); toolkit (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); toolkit (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); toolkit (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); toolkit (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); toolkit (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); toolkit (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); toolkit (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); toolkit (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); toolkit (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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