Word Finder - suit

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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.

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Nick hired a navy-blue suit for the wedding.

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(by extension) A single garment that covers the whole body: space suit, boiler suit, protective suit.

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(metonym) A person who wears matching jacket and trousers, especially a boss or a supervisor.

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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.

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

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Obsolete The act of following or pursuing; pursuit, chase.

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Pursuit of a love-interest; wooing, courtship.

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The act of suing; the pursuit of a particular object or goal.

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The full set of sails required for a ship.

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Each of the sets of a pack of cards distinguished by color and/or specific emblems, such as the spades, hearts, diamonds or clubs of traditional Anglo, Hispanic and French playing cards.

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Regular order; succession.

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Every five and thirty years the same kind and suit of weather comes again.

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A company of attendants or followers; a retinue.

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A group of similar or related objects or items considered as a whole; a suite (of rooms etc.)

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To make proper or suitable; to adapt or fit.

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(said of clothes, hairstyle or other fashion item) To be suitable or apt for one's image.

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That new top suits you. Where did you buy it?

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To be appropriate or apt for.

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Ill suits his cloth the praise of railing well.

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(most commonly used in the passive form) To dress; to clothe.

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To please; to make content; to fit one's taste.

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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)

He always looked nice, but normally he would have worn a suit for the occasion.

When he succeeded in forming it to suit her, she patted him on his woolly head so vigorously that I thought some of his slips were intentional.

No, Mary, really this dress does not suit you.

I was reaching for his hanging suit when I heard an automobile roll up the driveway.

Kings and queens who wear a suit but once, though made by some tailor or dressmaker to their majesties, cannot know the comfort of wearing a suit that fits.

Miss Sullivan never needlessly belittled her ideas or expressions to suit the supposed state of the child's intelligence.

She used the same suit cases when she came and she had the same clothes, but it didn't look like there was enough room to put it all in.

Suit yourself, but personally, I think it would be good for you to get out a little.

But I heard you talking to that man in the black suit when I was in the building.

You'll have your suit tomorrow.

He looked delicious in that dark suit.

The voice on the telephone had belonged to a middle-aged woman dressed modestly in a dark suit.

He lifted his rifle, cocking it as quietly as he could, and she followed suit.

I don't think an admission they were dealing with a psychic or someone with supernatural abilities would sit well with their suit and necktie image.

She held an umbrella and was dressed in a grey suit.

The only things missing were the swim suit and baseball cap.

My dark suit is back there in Keene.

I don't have my swim suit on.

As the teams came to a halt, the rasp of leather against sandy wheels assured her that the other wagons were following suit.

It's hard to say there's no connection with the bones until we're sure there is a third Dawkins, who he or she is, and what the suit is all about.

The position of sheriff was administrative in nature—his strong suit.

Patience had never been his strong suit, but he felt certain if he didn't give this woman the space she needed, she would be gone.

The closet contained a second suit and three shirts, each on its own hanger with a necktie looped over it.

Opinions differ as to the true import of these glosses; some scholars hold that the Salic Law was originally written in the Frankish vernacular, and that these words are remnants of the ancient text, while others regard them as legal formulae such as would be used either by a plaintiff in introducing a suit, or by the judge to denote the exact composition to be pronounced.

But the actual doctrine taught by Massenbach, who was now a colonel, may be summarized as the doctrine of positions carried to a ludicrous excess; the claims put forward for the general staff, that it was to prepare cut-anddried plans of operations in peace which were to be imposed on the troop leaders in war, were derided by the responsible generals; and the memoirs on proposed plans of campaign to suit certain political combinations were worked out in quite unnecessary detail.

This did not suit Philip, who, although he instituted a process in the supreme tribunal of Aragon, speedily abandoned it and caused Perez to be attacked from another side, the charge of heresy being now preferred, arising out of certain reckless and even blasphe On the other hand it is suggested that this story of his being the son of Gomez was only circulated by Ruy Gomez's wife, Ana de Mendoza, as a refutation of the possibility of a supposed amour between her and Perez.

It was pitch black in the bedroom where I was supposed to get the suit.

Just as I was reaching for Howie's suit, I saw a car pull into the driveway, without headlights.

Neither has a bathing suit.

She brushed one of the frozen women trapped in time on the sidewalk, surprised to feel her warm skin and the brush of the wool suit.

While Cynthia didn't explain her decision to fit God and church into their busy Sunday morning schedule, once again she dressed for church and Dean dutifully followed suit.

But they couldn't sell because of Mrs. Dawkins's suit.

The doctor says I can talk, but I think he is trying to avoid a law suit.

The woman was smartly dressed in a suit.

She walked over to him and took the suit.

The first picture was of a young man dressed in a suit, looking as if he'd rather be anywhere else.

But you're in a bathing suit, a poor choice of traveling duds.

He assumed Cynthia Byrne was a few minutes late, but when he descended the stairs, there she sat, opposite Fred O'Connor, who was decked out in an elegant blue pinstripe suit complete with pocket handkerchief and bow tie.

Fred began to pick cat hairs from his blue suit.

Everything about him was perfect, from the glass polish of his black shoes to the knife-like crease in his thousand-dollar suit.

Her smile lit the table and she and her little brother, who was being the perfect gentlemen in his spring suit, were obvious­ly the pride and joy of Ma and Pa.

The bag contained a dress, a slip, under­wear and a two-piece pajama set but no robe or flannel running suit or anything dry and warm.

His mind followed suit, racing along, constructing a plan to prove his theory and more important­ly, to address it.

I guess I'll wear a suit.

She no longer wanted a taskmaster – especially one who would leave his wife and children when things didn't suit him.

The acting justice sits normally alone to hear causes in his canton of the peace (uchastok), but, at the request of both parties to a suit, he may call in an honorary justice as assessor or substitute.

Both monarchs were eager for England's alliance, and their suit enabled Wolsey to appear for the moment as the arbiter of Europe.

The statutes of the Order were altered to suit the new conditions, and a whole system of administration arose.

At an age when the mind is quick to receive the impressions which give the bent to life he must have watched the progress of the great suit for the crown of Scotland.

When the cathedral chapter found courage to oppose this and opened suit to recover the ecclesiastical revenues for ecclesiastical purposes, Richelieu's mother proposed to make her second son, Alphonse, bishop. He defeated this scheme, however, by becoming a monk of the Grande Chartreuse, and Armand, whose health was rather feeble in any case for a military career, was induced to propose himself for the priesthood.