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The stuff standing between your ambition and your excuses.
means The tools, gear, or apparatus needed to do a particular job or activity.
from From French équipement, from équiper 'to equip, fit out,' which traces back to Old French esquiper 'to man or fit out a ship.' That nautical root likely comes from an Old Norse word, skipa, meaning 'to arrange a ship's crew' or 'fit out a ship' — related to skip, 'ship.' So the word's deep DNA is maritime: equipping something originally meant loading and crewing a vessel for a voyage, long before it meant packing a gym bag or a toolbox.
- nautical roots
- originally meant outfitting a ship, not a gym
- legal gray area
- courts still argue what counts as equipment in contracts
- gym irony
- most purchased equipment becomes a clothes rack within weeks