Refit

Meaning

The process of having something fitted again, repaired or restored..

Definitions by Sense

1. The process of having something fitted again, repaired or restored.
2. (transitive) To fit again; to put back into its place.
3. (transitive) To prepare for use again; to repair or restore.
4. (transitive) To fit out or supply again (with something).
5. (intransitive, nautical) 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.

Example Sentences

The ship required a refit before setting out again.

At the start, the team removed the sides and the ceiling panels, alongside the seats. They then stripped out the cabling that runs through the carriage. Once that was done, the carriage would be ready for the refit.

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.

[…] I have seen a Man ride with both his feet upon the Saddle, take off his Saddle, and at his return take it up again, refit, and remount it, riding all the while full speed;

Michelangelo took a group outside and in full view of the papal troops refitted the fallen, shattered stone into the walls.

[…] for the next half-hour I looked on, fascinated, while his large soft hands took apart the entire pump and refitted the parts.

37424 had been noted at Barrow Hill with its air horns moved onto the nose (in front of the cab windows) to allow it to work on certain routes where '37s' with roof-mounted horns are barred, such as to Stranraer. However, the horns have now been refitted to their normal position, with the bolts of the alternative positioning still fitted.

to refit a garment; to refit ships of war

Word Forms

• refits
• refitting
• refitted
• refit

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