outfit

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We're a very small outfit serving a very specific niche.

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Quick take

any cohesive unit such as a military company

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of outfit gathered in one view.

noun

any cohesive unit such as a military company

noun

a set of clothing (with accessories); "his getup was exceedingly elegant"

noun

gear consisting of a set of articles or tools for a specified purpose

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for outfit.

noun

any cohesive unit such as a military company

noun

a set of clothing (with accessories); "his getup was exceedingly elegant"

noun

gear consisting of a set of articles or tools for a specified purpose

verb

provide with (something) usually for a specific purpose; "The expedition was equipped with proper clothing, food, and other necessities"

Example sentences

We're a very small outfit serving a very specific niche.

Hell, I once ordered underwear from a Kickstarter clothing outfit and that came at least three months late.

The manager insisted I at least have 1 clean, all black outfit that was brand new. I went to H&M and did exactly what the author here describes, I skipped meals to afford it.

There's an outfit called Bank of Silicon Valley who seem to be helpful in cases like yours and you can open an account with them, over the phone.

A big employer for chemistry PhDs that no one in the West has heard of is Wuxi Pharmatech, a contract research outfit in Shanghai.

Even in the case of minor fraud, they would likely spend more in manpower than they could possibly reclaim from such a low-earning outfit.

The article's photo is from the 2012 RNC in Tampa, FL. Despite an army of police with all the equipment a paramilitary outfit could wish for, there were almost no arrests.

I was actually inspired by the idea that whenever cartoon characters opened their closets you'd see it full of just their signature outfit.

If you want to make a joke about homophobia, make a leather gun that decks a bad guy out in a leather outfit with assless chaps, temporarily incapacitating his friends as they laugh at him. Blammo -- joke's on them!

When I come back to the bar the next day to pick up my credit card, and the bouncer remembers me well enough to compliment my outfit from the previous night, that means I'm doing it right.

Now we're starting to see what can be accomplished when a credible journalism outfit is complemented by equally credible digital designers.

One is that fashions were far more conventional, than they are today -- you didn't want to pay the equivalent of a modern automobile's price for an outfit that would be seen as weird or outlandish within 1-2 years.

If you want to give credit to a report detailing how much money your political leaders have piled up for themselves, hacking the media outfit that published it is a great way to confirm the story.

Rupert Murdoch has been pretty cozy to western governments and large corporations, so why would I as a whistleblower/leaker choose WSJ's outfit given the ideological and conflict of interest issues?Say what you will about WikiLeaks, but it's pretty much got one purpose and no obvious conflict of interest.