Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • intransitive verb To prepare and equip for additional use.
  • intransitive verb To be made fit again.
  • noun Repair of damage or wear.
  • noun A secondary or subsequent preparation of supplies and equipment.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The repairing or renovating of what is damaged or worn out; specifically, the repair of a ship: as, the vessel came in for refit.
  • To fit or prepare again; restore after damage or decay; repair: as, to refit ships of war.
  • To fit out or provide anew.
  • To repair damages, especially damages of ships.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • intransitive verb To obtain repairs or supplies.
  • transitive verb To fit or prepare for use again; to repair; to restore after damage or decay
  • transitive verb To fit out or supply a second time.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun An act of having something fitted again, or replaced.
  • verb To fit again, to put back in place.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • verb fit out again
  • noun outfitting a ship again (by repairing or replacing parts)

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Examples

  • In December, 1941, my ship HMCS Assiniboine was in refit in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, across the harbour from Halifax.

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  • The support structure took him and his brother 3 days to weld, and lest any of you should question his Trekkie status, he also tells me the ship design is the NCC-1701 "refit" used in the first three movies.

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  • The support structure took him and his brother 3 days to weld, and lest any of you should question his Trekkie status, he also tells me the ship design is the NCC-1701 "refit" used in the first three movies.

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  • I shall have to do what Captain Snow, my grandfather, calls 'refit' here in New York.

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  • On reaching the house, Mrs. Ormonde went straight to her own apartment to "refit," and Katherine sat down in the smaller drawing or morning room, which looked west and was cool.

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  • - is if the image is the Enterprise coming in for a "refit" after the completion of April's first five year mission.

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  • The government refit also came after signs of growing discontent inside Mr. Papandreou's party, whose parliamentary deputies had grown increasingly uneasy over the stormy public protests.

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  • A recent refit has somehow made the place feel even more authentic, with drinkers partitioned off into their own private spaces.

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  • This Oxford Street number actually just around the corner on Noel Street is fresh from a £1.5m refit giving it a sleek contemporary look.

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  • Neither Spurs' reuse of Olympic infrastructure nor their consortium's offer to fund a parallel refit of Crystal Palace's running track addresses the central absurdity.

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  • That was not something the dispenser could provide, so he called ship's stores directly for a cabin refit, then turned back to the dispenser menu. got it from wordnik

    October 4, 2010