Meaning of suit | Babel Free

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1. 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. A surname.
3. 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.
4. A garment or set of garments suitable and/or required for a given task or activity: space suit, boiler suit, protective suit, swimsuit.
   broadly
5. A garment or set of garments suitable and/or required for a given task or activity: space suit, boiler suit, protective suit, swimsuit
6. A dress.
   Pakistan
7. A dress
8. A person who wears matching jacket and trousers, especially a boss or a supervisor.
   derogatory, metonymically, slang
9. A person who wears matching jacket and trousers, especially a boss or a supervisor
10. A full set of armour.
11. A full set of armour
12. 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.
13. Petition, request, entreaty.
14. The act of following or pursuing; pursuit, chase.
    obsolete
15. Pursuit of a love-interest; wooing, courtship.
16. The act of suing; the pursuit of a particular object or goal.
    obsolete
17. The full set of sails required for a ship.
18. Each of the sets of a pack of cards distinguished by colour and/or specific emblems, such as the spades, hearts, diamonds, or clubs of traditional Anglo, Hispanic, and French playing cards.
19. Regular order; succession.
    obsolete
20. A company of attendants or followers; a retinue.
    archaic
21. A group of similar or related objects or items considered as a whole; a suite (of rooms etc.)
    archaic

Equivalents

Examples

“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.”

“Nick hired a navy-blue suit for the wedding.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Rebate your loves, each rival suit suspend, Till this funereal web my labors end.”

“Thenceforth the suitt of earthly conquest shonne.”

“To deal and shuffle, to divide and sort Her mingled suits and sequences.”

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

“"You must wear these to-day, my dear child," said Lord Norbourne, as, entering the dressing-room of his daughter, he laid a suit of pearls on her table”

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