EGAVE

suit

About 21.10 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun 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.
  2. noun A garment or set of garments suitable and/or required for a given task or activity: space suit, boiler suit, protective suit, swimsuit.
  3. noun A dress.
  4. noun 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.
  5. noun A full set of armour.
  6. noun 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.
  7. noun Petition, request, entreaty.
  8. noun The act of following or pursuing; pursuit, chase.

Similar words

wooing courting become courtship accommodate befit beseem fit case cause

Often followed by

the of and against in for was to is

Word family

suited suiting suits

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