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Gear Up

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Verb

1. fix, gear up, prepare, ready, set, set up

make ready or suitable or equip in advance for a particular purpose or for some use, event, etc

Example Sentences:
'Get the children ready for school!'
'prepare for war'
'I was fixing to leave town after I paid the hotel bill'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Gear Up

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verb (adverb)
1. (transitive)
to equip with gears
2. 
to prepare, esp for greater efficiency
is our industry geared up for these new challenges?

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Gear Up

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1. 
to adjust gears so that the driven element goes faster than the driving element, with a consequent decrease in torque
2. 
to accelerate; increase efficiency (of)
the factory geared up production

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Gear Up

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n.
1.
a. A toothed machine part, such as a wheel or cylinder, that meshes with another toothed part to transmit motion or to change speed or direction.
b. A complete assembly that performs a specific function in a larger machine.
c. A transmission configuration for a specific ratio of engine to axle torque in a motor vehicle.
2. Equipment, such as tools or clothing, used for a particular activity: fishing gear. See Synonyms at equipment.
3.
a. Clothing and accessories: the latest gear for teenagers.
b. Personal belongings, including clothing: keeps her gear in a trunk.
4. The harness for a horse.
5. Nautical
a. A ship's rigging.
b. A sailor's personal effects.
v. geared, gear·ing, gears
v.tr.
1.
a. To equip with gears.
b. To connect by gears.
c. To put into gear.
2. To adjust or adapt so as to make suitable: geared the speech to a conservative audience.
3. To provide with gear; equip.
v.intr.
1. To come into or be in gear.
2. To shift a transmission: geared down to take the curve.
3. To become adjusted so as to fit or blend.

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