gear up

Questions about gear up

What does gear up mean?

gear up means "make ready or suitable or equip in advance for a particular purpose or for some use, event, etc".

What is another word for gear up?

Close synonyms include fix, prepare, set up, ready, set. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is gear up a common word?

gear up is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.