outfit
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ˈaʊtfɪt/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
- Rhymes: -aʊtfɪt
- Hyphenation: out‧fit
Noun
[edit]outfit (plural outfits)
- A set of clothing (with accessories).
- Synonym: getup
- She wore a fashionable outfit with matching purse and shoes.
- 2003, Jason Isbell, Outfit:
- Don't call what you're wearing an outfit.
- Gear consisting of a set of articles or tools for a specified purpose.
- Any cohesive group of people; a unit; such as a military company.
- 2008, BioWare, Mass Effect, Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Salarians: League of One Codex entry:
- The League of One was suddenly exposed and in danger of being hunted by enemies of the salarians. Before any harm could be done, the team mysteriously disappeared.[...]Realizing the threat posed by this rogue outfit, the Special Tasks Group dispatched a team of hunters. When they didn't return, the STG dispatched ten of its brightest operators with broad discretionary powers. Only two returned; they reported no evidence of the League.
- (informal) A business or firm.
- Should we buy it here, or do you think the outfit across town will have a better deal?
- (sports) A sports team.
- 2011 October 20, Jamie Lillywhite, “Tottenham 1 - 0 Rubin Kazan”, in BBC Sport[1]:
- With only two fit centre-backs available, Tottenham boss Harry Redknapp employed young midfielder Jake Livermore at the back alongside Sebastien Bassong but Spurs struggled against a seasoned Champions League outfit, who beat Barcelona at the Nou Camp in 2009-10 and continually worked their way between the home defence to create some golden opportunities.
- (statistics) An outlier-sensitive fit.
- Antonym: infit
- (Canada, historical) A fiscal year of the Hudson's Bay Company, or the supplies required for such a period.
- 1949, John McLoughlin, The Financial Papers of Dr. John McLoughlin, page 56:
- […] the outfit of 1821, which outfit suffered a loss. From 1822 there were profits on each outfit as the many subsequent credit entries indicate.
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- → Dutch: outfit
- → German: Outfit
- → Italian: outfit
- → Portuguese: outfit
- → Serbo-Croatian: outfit
- → Spanish: outfit
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Verb
[edit]outfit (third-person singular simple present outfits, present participle outfitting, simple past and past participle outfitted)
- (transitive) To provide with, usually for a specific purpose.
- The expedition was outfitted with proper clothing, food, and other necessities.
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Anagrams
[edit]Catalan
[edit]Noun
[edit]outfit m (plural outfits)
- outfit (clothing)
Dutch
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Unadapted borrowing from English outfit.
Pronunciation
[edit]Audio: (file) - Hyphenation: out‧fit
Noun
[edit]outfit m (plural outfits, diminutive outfitje n)
- outfit (set of clothing)
Italian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Unadapted borrowing from English outfit.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]outfit m
- outfit (set of clothing)
Portuguese
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Unadapted borrowing from English outfit.
Pronunciation
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Noun
[edit]outfit m (plural outfits)
Further reading
[edit]- “outfit”, in Dicionário inFormal (in Portuguese), 2006–2024
Serbo-Croatian
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Unadapted borrowing from English outfit.
Noun
[edit]outfit m (Cyrillic spelling оутфит)
References
[edit]- “outfit” in Hrvatski jezični portal
Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Unadapted borrowing from English outfit.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]outfit m (plural outfits)
- outfit (set of clothing)
Usage notes
[edit]According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.
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- Rhymes:English/aʊtfɪt
- Rhymes:English/aʊtfɪt/2 syllables
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- en:Clothing
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- Catalan lemmas
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- ca:Clothing
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- nl:Clothing
- Italian terms borrowed from English
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- Rhymes:Italian/awtfit
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- Italian lemmas
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- it:Clothing
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- Rhymes:Portuguese/itʃi
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- Rhymes:Portuguese/it
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- pt:Clothing
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- Croatian Serbo-Croatian
- Bosnian Serbo-Croatian
- sh:Clothing
- Spanish terms borrowed from English
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- Rhymes:Spanish/audfit
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- Spanish masculine nouns
- es:Clothing