suit
/sut/ noun A2- 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.
- A garment or set of garments suitable and/or required for a given task or activity: space suit, boiler suit, protective suit, swimsuit.
- A dress.
- A person who wears matching jacket and trousers, especially a boss or a supervisor. · Be sure to keep your nose to the grindstone today; the suits are making a "surprise" visit to this department.
- A full set of armour.
- 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.
- Petition, request, entreaty.
- Pursuit of a love-interest; wooing, courtship.
Plural suits
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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“Serpent, I say again!” repeated the Pigeon, but in a more subdued tone, and added with a kind of sob, “I’ve tried every way, and nothing seems to suit them!”
“I told you butter wouldn’t suit the works!” he added looking angrily at the March Hare.
Towers Chandler was pressing his evening suit in his hall bedroom.
Behind him tagged a boy carrying a suit-case.
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