re-equipment en · NOUN
Etymology
From re-equip + -ment.
Meanings
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(alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of reequipment.
alt of reequipment
The decade [1980s] was also one of re-equipment. More HSTs arrived, West Coast Main Line services received Mk 3 coaches, and the second generation of DMUs entered traffic.
2024 January 10, Philip Haigh, “Four decades of Britain's railway evolution - step by step”, in RAIL, number 1000, page 64:They seem to fall well below the 100 m.p.h. standard of running so confidently promised when the 1955 modernisation and re-equipment plan was first made public by the British Transport Commission.
1960 February, Cecil J. Allen, “Locomotive Running Past and Present”, in Trains Illustrated, page 110: