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A set of clothes to be worn together, now especially a man's matching jacket and trousers (also business suit or lounge suit), or a similar outfit for a woman.
- Nick hired a navy-blue suit for the wedding.
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A garment or set of garments suitable and/or required for a given task or activity: space suit, boiler suit, protective suit, swimsuit.broadly
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A dress.Pakistan
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A person who wears matching jacket and trousers, especially a boss or a supervisor.derogatorymetonymicallyslang
- Be sure to keep your nose to the grindstone today; the suits are making a "surprise" visit to this department.
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A full set of armour.
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The attempt to gain an end by legal process; a process instituted in a court of law for the recovery of a right or claim; a lawsuit.
- If you take my advice, you'll file a suit against him immediately.
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Petition, request, entreaty.
- Tam[burlaine]. Are you the wittie King of Perſea? Myc[etes]. I marrie am I: haue you any ſute to me? Tam[burlaine]. I woulde intreate you to ſpeake but three wiſe wordes.
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The act of following or pursuing; pursuit, chase.obsolete
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Pursuit of a love-interest; wooing, courtship.
- Rebate your loves, each rival suit suspend, Till this funereal web my labors end.
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The act of suing; the pursuit of a particular object or goal.obsolete
- Thenceforth the suitt of earthly conquest shonne.
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To make proper or suitable; to adapt or fit.transitive
- but let your owne Diſcretion be your Tutor: Sute the Action to the Word, the Word to the Action,
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To be suitable or apt for one's image.transitive
- The ripped jeans didn't suit her elegant image.
- That new top suits you. Where did you buy it?
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To be appropriate or apt for.figurativelytransitive
- The nickname "Bullet" suits her, since she is a fast runner.
- c. 1700, Matthew Prior, epistle to Dr. Sherlock Raise her notes to that sublime degree / Which suits song of piety and thee.
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To dress; to clothe.intransitive
- So went he suited to his watery tomb.
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To please; to make content; to fit someone's (or one's own) taste.intransitivetransitive
- will build to suit [on for-sale signs marking vacant lots]
- He is well suited with his place.
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To agree; to be fitted; to correspond (usually followed by to, archaically also followed by with).intransitive
- The place itself was suiting to his care.
- Give me not an office / That suits with me so ill.