toolkit

A set of tools kept together, especially comprising all the tools suitable for some particular type of work.

Noun

  1. A set of tools kept together, especially comprising all the tools suitable for some particular type of work.
    • The culture of Ice Age humanity expresses a steady growth in the complexity of the tool kit, and a steady growth in complexity of artistic development. - 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to...
  2. A set of personal abilities, skills, or resources to draw on.
    • My hope is that this book will familiarize readers with tools for analyzing historical and contemporary mechanisms of social differentiation, ethnoracial division, and symbolic structural inequality. My belief is that...
    • Anthony Lambert's review of the Cycle-Rail toolkit was, to this non-cyclist, of interest - particularly the recognition of tourism support and opportunities. - 2023 December 13, “Open Access: Access for cyclists and...
    • Prior to the Great Recession, active management of the long-bond portfolio was not a major feature of most central banks' toolkits, Japan being one notable exception. - 2023, Eric Sims, Jing Cynthia Wu, and Ji Zhang,...
  3. A set of software tools or components.
    • Morgan Computing Co.'s Disk Toolkit is the perfect program for speed demons who want a more flexible way to wield DEBUG's power. - 1986, PC Mag, volume 5, number 17, page 221:
  4. A set of guidelines or instructions.

    Synonyms: playbook

  5. A set of instructions that is used to organize a protest.

Origin

From tool + kit.

Forms

toolkits tool kit

Related

devkit toolbox toolset