1 [C] a set of clothes that you wear together, especially for a particular occasion or purpose:
She was wearing an expensive new outfit. * a wedding outfit * a cowboy / Superman outfit (= one that you wear for fun in order to look like the type of person mentioned)
2 [C+sing./pl.v.] (informal) a group of people working together as an organization, business, team, etc:
a market research outfit * The team were beaten by Dave Bassett's outfit last season. * This was the fourth album by the top rock outfit.
3 [C] a set of equipment that you need for a particular purpose:
a bicycle repair outfit
verb (-tt-) [VN] [oftenpassive] ~ sth/sb (with sth) (especially AmE) to provide sb/sth with equipment or clothes for a special purpose:
The ship was outfitted with a 12-bed hospital.
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Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
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Is outfit a noun, verb, or something else?
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