What does "refit" mean?
The process of having something fitted again, repaired or restored.
Refit
/ˈɹiːfɪt/ noun, verb
noun, verb ·Moderate ·High school level
Meaning at a glance
- Primary sense: The process of having something fitted again, repaired or restored.
- Grammar: refit is listed as noun, verb.
- Nearest alternatives: accommodate, adapt, adjust, alter.
- Useful contrasts: decommission, decommissioning, deteriorate.
- Usage evidence: The ship is now in dock for a refit.
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Definitions
Noun
- 1 The process of having something fitted again, repaired or restored.
"The ship required a refit before setting out again."
- 2 outfitting a ship again (by repairing or replacing parts) wordnet
Verb
- 1 To fit again; to put back into its place. transitive
"1677, Philip Meadows, A Narrative of the Principal Actions Occurring in the Wars Betwixt Sueden and Denmark, London: A.C. and H. Brome, pp. 122-123, The truth is they made no great scruple, at least for that one time, to come under the Stern of their Neighbouring Common-wealth, thereby to have better leisure to recollect and refit the scattered planks and pieces of their own broken Republic."
- 2 fit out again wordnet
- 3 To prepare for use again; to repair or restore. transitive
"to refit a garment; to refit ships of war"
- 4 To fit out or supply again (with something). transitive
"For what can be more comfortable then to be asserted from the power of the grave, and rescued from death and mortality, to have our Soul refitted with Organs, and all the bodily powers awakened again so as to lose nothing by our fall;"
- 5 To prepare a vessel for use again (e.g. by replenishing depleted supplies or doing maintenance or repair work); (of a vessel) to be prepared for use again. intransitive
"1669, uncredited translator, Memoires of Henry, D. of Guise, London: Henry Herringman, Book 5, p. 499, […] I discovered two Gallies making towards Nicita, whom I saluted with two Cannons, which I levelled and fired my self, so happily, that one of them being shot through between wind and water, was fain to go off to refit, and the other had three or four slaves killed."
Example
"The ship is now in dock for a refit."
Common questions
What is a synonym for "refit"?
Common synonyms include: accommodate, adapt, adjust, alter, ameliorate, better.
How do you use "refit" in a sentence?
The ship is now in dock for a refit.
How do you pronounce "refit"?
Pronounced /ˈɹiːfɪt/.
Etymology
From re- + fit.