suit

UK /sjuːt/ US /sut/
noun 5verb 5name 1

Definitions

noun

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.

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.

2

A garment or set of garments suitable and/or required for a given task or activity: space suit, boiler suit, protective suit, swimsuit.

3

A dress.

4

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.

You had an army / Of suits behind you

5

A full set of armour.

verb

1

To make proper or suitable; to adapt or fit.

but let your owne Diſcretion be your Tutor: Sute the Action to the Word, the Word to the Action,

2

To be suitable or apt for one's image.

The ripped jeans didn't suit her elegant image.

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

3

To be appropriate or apt for.

The nickname "Bullet" suits her, since she is a fast runner.

Ill suits his cloth the praise of railing well.

4

To dress; to clothe.

So went he suited to his watery tomb.

5

To please; to make content; to fit someone's (or one's own) taste.

will build to suit   [on for-sale signs marking vacant lots]

He is well suited with his place.

name

1

A surname.

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