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Meaning: (idiomatic)Toprovidea thing, a group, a person or oneself withrequisites; tokit out.1836October,Washington Irving, chapter XXV, inAstoria, or Anecdotes of an Enterprise beyond the Rocky Mountains.[…], volume II, Philadelphia, Pa.:[Henry Charles] Carey,[Isaac] Lea, & Blanchard,→OCLC,page217:On hearing of this determination, Mr.[John Jacob] Astorimmediately proceeded tofit outa ship called the Enterprise, to sail in company with the Adams, freighted with additional supplies and reinforcements for Astoria.1864,Abel D. Streight,Report of Col. Abel D. Streight, August 22, 1864:On April 7, 1863, I received orders from General Rosecrans to proceed with the Provisional Brigade ... to Nashville, and tofit outas speedily as possible for an expedition to the interior of Alabama and Georgia, for the purpose of destroying the railroads and other rebel property in that country.1914,Ernest Scott,The Life of Captain Matthew Flinders, R.N.:Moreover, if Bonaparte had wished to acquire territory in Australia, he was not so foolish a person as tofit outan expedition estimated to cost over half a million francs,[2]and which actually cost a far larger sum, when he could have obtained what he wanted simply by asking.
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