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noun

equipment

CEFR B1

an instrumentality needed for an undertaking or to perform a service

In a sentence

Six example sentences with equipment, each labelled with its topic.

  • He carries the minimum equipment for a shoot: one body, two lenses, a folding reflector, and a spare battery.

    Photography

  • The gym opened with almost no equipment, just a rack of dumbbells, two benches, and a chalk bucket.

    Fitness

  • The rural clinic lacked the equipment for scans, so nurses drove samples ninety minutes to the district hospital.

    Medicine

  • The band's equipment fills a small van: two amplifiers, a drum kit, and a tangle of cables nobody labels.

    Music

  • The equipment manager packs forty pairs of shoes for a road trip, because players wear through soles in a week.

    Basketball

  • A pastry kitchen needs surprisingly little equipment beyond a scale, a marble slab, and an oven that holds its temperature.

    Cooking

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