- a set of clothes made of the same cloth, including a jacket and trousers or a skirt
- She was wearing a grey business suit.
- He is dressed in a formal black suit.
- They won't let men into the restaurant without a suit and tie.
- a two-/three-piece suit (= of two/three pieces of clothing)
- a pinstripe suit
Extra ExamplesTopics Clothes and Fashiona2- He wore his one good suit to the interview.
- Two men in suits came out of the hotel.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- designer
- elegant
- immaculate
- …
- coat
- jacket
- pants
- …
- in a suit
- a suit and tie
- a suit of armour/armor
- a suit of clothes
- …
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- a set of clothing worn for a particular activity
- a diving suit
- a suit of armour
- His parents had bought him a new suit of clothes for the occasion.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- designer
- elegant
- immaculate
- …
- coat
- jacket
- pants
- …
- in a suit
- a suit and tie
- a suit of armour/armor
- a suit of clothes
- …
- any of the four sets that form a pack of cards
- The suits are called hearts, clubs, diamonds and spades.
Extra ExamplesTopics Games and toysc2- All the cards have to be from the same suit.
- The suit changed to diamonds.
- Which suit is trumps?
- (also lawsuit)a claim or complaint against somebody that a person or an organization can make in court
- to file/bring a suit against somebody
- a divorce suit
Extra Examples- His former business associate filed a suit against him claiming £5 million damages.
- She plans to defend the suit vigorously.
- The company now faces several suits over its failure to protect its employees.
- The two companies have settled the suit.
- They have agreed to drop their suit against the Dutch company.
- a suit against her former husband
- a suit over a disputed estate
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- civil
- class-action
- paternity
- …
- bring
- file
- be involved in
- …
- in a/the suit
- suit against
- suit over
- …
- [usually plural] (informal) a person with an important job as a manager in a company or organization, especially one who is thought to work mainly with financial matters or to have a lot of influence
- We can leave the detailed negotiations to the suits.
- He’s a ‘suit’, not a ‘creative’.
Word OriginMiddle English: from Anglo-Norman French siwte, from a feminine past participle of a Romance verb based on Latin sequi ‘follow’. Early senses included ‘attendance at a court’ and ‘legal process’; senses (1) to (3) derive from an earlier meaning ‘set of things to be used together’. The verb sense ‘make appropriate’ dates from the late 16th cent.
Idioms
See suit in the Oxford Advanced American DictionarySee suit in the Oxford Learner's Dictionary of Academic Englishbe somebody’s strong suit
- to be a subject that somebody knows a lot about
- I'm afraid geography is not my strong suit.
follow suit
- (in card games) to play a card of the same suit that has just been played
- to act or behave in the way that somebody else has just done
in your birthday suit
- (humorous) not wearing any clothes
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