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Look for four entries beginning with F, O, P and S. These initials are in sorted order.
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FURNISH belongs in this group.
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EQUIP
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- FURNISH
- OUTFIT
- PROVISION
- STOCK
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For EQUIP, read STOCK as a verb: provide a place with needed supplies. FURNISH can mean provide furniture or equipment; OUTFIT means provide what is needed for a purpose; PROVISION means supply provisions. The shared supplying or equipping sense selects the verb use of STOCK, rather than its cooking-liquid or financial noun senses.
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- Wiktionary contributors, stock, linked revision
STOCK has a cooking noun sense: liquid made from meat, bones or vegetables and used as a soup or stew base. It also has a verb sense of supplying material requirements or providing supplies.
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- Wiktionary contributors, furnish, linked revision
FURNISH can mean provide a place with furniture or other equipment.
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- Wiktionary contributors, outfit, linked revision
OUTFIT as a verb can mean provide someone or something with what is needed for a particular purpose.
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- Wiktionary contributors, provision, linked revision
PROVISION as a verb means supply with provisions; provisions are supplies, especially food, obtained for later use.
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