Suit

/sjuːt/ · noun

Meaning

(clothing) 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..

Definitions by Sense

1. (clothing) 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.
2. (by extension) A garment or set of garments suitable and/or required for a given task or activity: space suit, boiler suit, protective suit, swimsuit.
3. (Pakistan, women's speech) A dress.
4. (derogatory, slang, metonymic) A person who wears matching jacket and trousers, especially a boss or a supervisor.
5. A full set of armour.
6. (law) 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.
7. Petition, request, entreaty.
8. (obsolete) The act of following or pursuing; pursuit, chase.

Example Sentences

Nick hired a navy-blue suit for the wedding.

A canister of flour from the kitchen had been thrown at the looking-glass and lay like trampled snow over the remains of a decent blue suit with the lining ripped out which lay on top of the ruin of a plastic wardrobe.

Think of banking today and the image is of grey-suited men in towering skyscrapers. Its future, however, is being shaped in converted warehouses and funky offices in San Francisco, New York and London, where bright young things in jeans and T-shirts huddle around laptops, sipping lattes or munching on free food.

Be sure to keep your nose to the grindstone today; the suits are making a "surprise" visit to this department.

You had an army / Of suits behind you

Two smartly dressed suits walked up to the doctor. "Are you alright Dr. La Perouse?"

Suits didn't wear suits any more—they wore Tibetan prayer beads coiled around their wrists. But they slithered in a suitlike way.

If you take my advice, you'll file a suit against him immediately.

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Antonyms for suit

Related Words

Word Forms

• suits
• suiting
• suited

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