equipment
US /ɪˈkwɪpmənt/
Definition
an instrumentality needed for an undertaking or to perform a service
Tested in TOEIC business and workplace contexts.
Examples
The factory invested in new equipment to increase its daily production.
Word Family
Synonyms
- geara toothed wheel that engages another toothed mechanism in order to change the speed or direction of transmitted motion
- apparatusequipment designed to serve a specific function
- machinerymachines or machine systems collectively
Collocations
- Easy office equipmentdescribing office equipment (place of business where professional or clerical duties are performed)
- Medium safety equipmentdescribing safety equipment (the state of being certain that adverse effects will not be caused by some agent under defined conditions)
- Hard heavy equipment leasingdescribing heavy equipment leasing (an actor who plays villainous roles)
- Very Hard capital expenditure on obsolete equipmentdescribing capital expenditure on obsolete equipment (assets available for use in the production of further assets)
- Hard state-of-the-art equipmentdescribing state-of-the-art equipment (the highest level of development at a particular time (especially the present time))
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