Usually means: Appropriate or suitable for purpose.
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We found 37 dictionaries that define the word fitting:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. fitting: Merriam-Webster
  2. fitting, fitting: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. fitting: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. fitting: Collins English Dictionary
  5. fitting: Vocabulary.com
  6. Fitting, fitting: Wordnik
  7. fitting: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Fitting, fitting: Wiktionary
  9. fitting: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. fitting: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. fitting: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Fitting, fitting: Dictionary.com
  13. fitting: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Fitting: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Fitting: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. fitting: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. fitting: Rhymezone
  18. fitting: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. fitting: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. fitting: FreeDictionary.org
  21. fitting: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. -fitting, fitting: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. fitting: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  24. fitting: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  2. -fitting, fitting: Legal dictionary
  3. fitting: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. -fitting, fitting: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. -fitting, fitting: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. fitting: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Botanical Terms (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. fitting: Urban Dictionary

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Oil and Gas Well Drilling and Servicing eTool (No longer online)
  3. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

(Note: See fit as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (informal, US, with infinitive) Getting ready; preparing.
adjective:  Appropriate; suitable.
noun:  A small part, especially a standardized or detachable part of a device or machine.
noun:  (engineering) A tube connector; a standardized connecting part of a piping system to attach sections of pipe together, such as a coupling
noun:  The act of trying on clothes to inspect or adjust the fit.
noun:  (manufacturing) The process of fitting up; especially of applying craft methods such as skilled filing to the making and assembling of machines or other products.
noun:  (chiefly British, often plural) A removable item in a house or other building, which can be taken with one when one moves out, such as a moveable piece of furniture, a carpet, picture, etc.; US furnishing; compare fixture.
noun:  (uncountable) The action or condition of having fits in the sense of seizures or convulsions.
noun:  A surname.

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