SUIT | Meaning, Definition In Cambridge English Dictionary

Meaning of suit in English suitnoun uk /suːt/ /sjuːt/ us /suːt/

suit noun (SET OF CLOTHES)

Add to word list Add to word list A2 [ C ] a jacket and trousers or a jacket and skirt that are made from the same material: three-piece suit two-piece suit dinner suit UK He was dressed formally, in a midnight-blue dinner suit that emphasized the width of his shoulders.tuxedo suit US Tuxedo suits are a viable option for very formal soirées.pinstripe suit All the businessmen were wearing pinstripe suits.wear a suit She wore a dark blue suit. See also dinner suit pantsuit trouser suit zoot suit   Indeed/GettyImages [ C ] a set of clothes or a piece of clothing to be worn in a particular situation or while doing a particular activity: diving suit protective suit ski suit suit of armour The next room contained a glass case full of ancient swords and suits of armour. See also swimsuit spacesuit sweatsuit tracksuit

• She wore a classic navy suit.
• Could you pick up my suit from the cleaner's for me, please?
• He was dressed in a dark grey suit.
• She always looks very professional in her smart suits.
• It's regulation to wear suits at the office.

Dresses, suits & gowns

• abaya
• ballgown
• bandage dress
• bandeau dress
• black tie
• frock
• ghillie suit
• gown
• himation
• jilbab
• pantsuit
• pinafore
• pinstripe
• playsuit
• robe
• tea dress
• three-piece suit
• toga
• trouser suit
• tunic

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suit noun (LEGAL PROBLEM)

[ C ] (also lawsuit) a problem taken to a law court by an ordinary person or an organization rather than the police in order to obtain a legal decision: bring a suit He brought (US also filed) a $12 million libel suit against the newspaper, claiming his reputation had been damaged.malpractice suit negligence suit paternity suit Court cases, orders & decisions

• actionable
• actionably
• actual damages
• administer
• admissibility
• extrajudicial
• extrajudicially
• fatal accident inquiry
• federal case
• finding
• pettifogging
• plea bargain
• plea bargaining
• pleading
• post bail
• verdict
• void
• voidable
• voluntary departure
• waiver

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suit noun (PLAYING CARDS)

[ C ] any of the four types of card in a set of playing cards, each having a different shape printed on it: The four suits in a pack of cards are hearts, spades, clubs, and diamonds. See also follow suit Card games

• all in
• bidding
• BJ
• blackjack
• bridge
• busted flush
• canasta
• card sharp
• diamond
• honour
• playing card
• pool
• queen
• re-raise
• rebid
• recut
• solitaire
• spade
• stick
• straight

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suit noun (PERSON)

[ C often plural ] informal disapproving a man who works in an office and wears a suit, especially a man with a high position in a company who is considered not to have human feelings or original ideas suitverb [ T ] uk /suːt/ /sjuːt/ us /suːt/

suit verb [T] (BE RIGHT)

B2 to be right for a particular person, situation, or occasion: A lot of corn is grown in this area - the soil seems to suit it very well. The city lifestyle seems to suit her - she looks great. B2 (usually of a colour or style of clothes) to make someone look more attractive: You should wear more red - it suits you. Short skirts don't really suit me - I don't have the legs for them.

• The software can be modified to suit the particular needs of the end user.
• How does family life suit you?
• "Will a loan of $500 be sufficient?" "That will suit me fine."
• I don't suppose I have any books that would suit your sophisticated tastes.
• Couldn't you contrive a meeting between them? I think they'd be ideally suited.

Being suitable or unsuitable

• age-barred
• answer
• appropriately
• be made for someone/something idiom
• become
• befit
• dress/look/act the part idiom
• extravagantly
• face
• fill/fit the bill idiom
• find your own level idiom
• fit
• level
• out of order idiom
• problematic
• someone's face doesn't fit idiom
• suit someone (right) down to the ground idiom
• topic
• unclubbable
• unsympathetically

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Wearing clothes Decorating or making something attractive Attractive

suit verb [T] (BE CONVENIENT)

B2 to be convenient and cause the least difficulty for someone: We could go now or this afternoon - whatever time suits you best.suit someone fine "How about eight o'clock at the cinema?" "That suits me fine."

• The opposition leader accused government ministers of manipulating the statistics to suit themselves.
• Which evening would suit you best for the party?
• Part-time work would suit me right down to the ground.
• Which time suits you better - 12.30 or one o'clock?
• We can go to the seven o'clock performance or the eight - whichever suits you best.

Being suitable or unsuitable

• age-barred
• answer
• appropriately
• be made for someone/something idiom
• become
• befit
• dress/look/act the part idiom
• extravagantly
• face
• fill/fit the bill idiom
• find your own level idiom
• fit
• level
• out of order idiom
• problematic
• someone's face doesn't fit idiom
• suit someone (right) down to the ground idiom
• topic
• unclubbable
• unsympathetically

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Grammar

Fit or suit?If something fits you or fits into a place, it is the right size or shape for you or for that place: …

Idioms

suit yourself! suit someone (right) down to the ground

Phrasal verb

suit up

suit yourself!

idiom   informal an expression used either humorously or angrily to mean "do what you want to do": "I don't think I'll come to the party tonight." "All right, suit yourself!" Linguistics: interjections

• aiyo
• attaboy
• attagirl
• auf Wiedersehen
• aw shucks
• bless you! idiom
• doctor
• guess
• hip
• lord
• lordy
• marry
• mazel tov
• more
• roll
• yech
• yeet
• yoicks
• yoink
• you know something? idiom

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suit | American Dictionary

suitverb [ T ] us /sut/

suit verb [T] (WORK WELL)

Add to word list Add to word list to be convenient or work well for someone or something: What time suits you best? The job of a salesman seems to suit him. To suit also means to make someone look more attractive: That new hairstyle really suits you – you look terrific.

Phrasal verb

suit up suitnoun [ C ] us /sut/

suit noun [C] (CLOTHES)

a set of clothes made of the same material and usually consisting of a jacket and pants or skirt A suit is also a set of clothes or a piece of clothing to be worn in a particular situation or for a particular activity: a bathing suit slang A suit is also someone in business, esp. when compared with an artist or ordinary worker: The network suits don’t care about the fans who show up at the ballpark.

suit noun [C] (LEGAL CASE)

a lawsuit: She brought a suit against the HMO for medical malpractice.

suit noun [C] (CARD TYPE)

any of the four types of cards in a set of playing cards, each having a different symbol printed on it: The four suits in a deck of cards are hearts, spades, clubs, and diamonds. (Definition of suit from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

suit | Business English

suitnoun [ C ] uk /suːt/ us Add to word list Add to word list LAW   (also lawsuit) a problem or complaint taken for a decision to a court of law by a person or organization rather than by the police or the government: bring/file a suit They have brought a suit for damages against the company. a civil/class-action/libel suit  file suit LAW to take a problem or complaint to a court of law for a decision: 30 people have filed suit against the company. a jacket and trousers or a jacket and skirt that are made from the same material: a business/pinstripe suit She wore a smart grey business suit to work. [ usually plural ] informal an executive, especially in advertising, the film industry, etc., rather than a creative (= writer, artist, etc.) working in one of these industries: We'll leave the suits in the boardroom to worry about this. Compare creative noun (Definition of suit from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

Examples of suit

suit With programmable control, the prosthetic team can create virtually any control scheme that suits a person's unique abilities. From the Cambridge English Corpus A theoretical perspective that is well suited to guiding the empirical investigation of such pathways may be found in the field of developmental psychopathology. From the Cambridge English Corpus Photonics forces, but they are low degree of freedom and not well suited to this scale of precision. From the Cambridge English Corpus Second, the 1-ha method clearly suits many purposes reasonably well - as we discuss further below it is an important multi-purpose protocol. From the Cambridge English Corpus The five codes discussed show large differences in the physics included and the mesh handling, which makes them suited to different problems. From the Cambridge English Corpus Policy makers should neither ask for firm conclusions when they do not exist, nor interpret scientific results to suit preferred policy outcomes. From the Cambridge English Corpus Such singing activities would be specifically designed to suit pre-pubertal children. From the Cambridge English Corpus A man dressed in a secondhand overcoat, in a used and worn out suit, a man whose face no longer had any human characteristics. From the Cambridge English Corpus As it would appear, nothing is better suited to prevent a revolutionary upheaval than the licensed revolt enacted in carnival. From the Cambridge English Corpus This tailoring of approaches to suit his intended audience depended upon a careful appreciation of the desires of each party and strict secrecy. From the Cambridge English Corpus They completely lack any apparatus suited to confronting phenomena of this order. From the Cambridge English Corpus Forms of human intervention include supplying information and energy, physically assisting the robot and modifying the environment to suit the robot. From the Cambridge English Corpus Some research has begun to examine family experiences in dynamic ways which may be suited to future evaluations of welfare reform policy. From the Cambridge English Corpus However, four mitigating factors make an explosion of suits unlikely, even were this more expansive form of liability officially recognized. From the Cambridge English Corpus His real motive here though is to show us how poorly suited are "top down" approaches to reproductive ethics. From the Cambridge English Corpus These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.

Collocations with suit

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black suitA reporter interviewed the bodyguard with the prince who was wearing a smart black suit. From the Cambridge English Corpus   blue suitHe wanted not to get rid of the gentleman in the blue suit and white shirt but to put him on the jury. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0   civil suitIf, however, the testimony was such that it would subject the witness to a debt action or a civil suit, the privilege was not available. From the Cambridge English Corpus   These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. See all collocations with suit What is the pronunciation of suit?

Translations of suit

in Chinese (Traditional) 一套衣服, 一套衣服，套裝, （特殊用途的）套裝，服裝… See more in Chinese (Simplified) 一套衣服, 一套衣服，套装, （特殊用途的）套装，服装… See more in Spanish traje, pleito, palo… See more in Portuguese terno, tailleur, traje… See more in Marathi in Japanese in Turkish in French in Catalan in Dutch in Tamil in Hindi in Gujarati in Danish in Swedish in Malay in German in Norwegian in Urdu in Ukrainian in Telugu in Bengali in Czech in Indonesian in Thai in Vietnamese in Polish in Korean in Italian सूट /जॅकेट आणि पॅन्ट किंवा जॅकेट आणि स्कर्ट जे एकाच कापडाचे बनवलेले आहे., सूट /ठराविक प्रकारचे कपडे जे एखाद्या ठराविक परिस्थितीत किंवा एखादे विशिष्ठ काम करताना घालतात, पोषक असणे… See more スーツ, スーツ（トランプのハート･スペード･クラブ・ダイヤの1つ）, ～に似合う… See more takım elbise, kostüm, tayyör… See more costume [masculine], tailleur [masculine], tenue [feminine]… See more vestit, coll, escaure… See more kostuum, -pak, rechtszaak… See more ஒரு ஜாக்கெட் மற்றும் கால்சட்டை அல்லது ஒரே பொருளிலிருந்து தயாரிக்கப்படும் ஜாக்கெட் மற்றும் பாவாடை, ஒரு குறிப்பிட்ட சூழ்நிலையில் அல்லது ஒரு குறிப்பிட்ட செயலைச் செய்யும்போது அணிய வேண்டிய ஆடைகளின் தொகுப்பு அல்லது ஒரு துண்டு ஆடை, ஒரு குறிப்பிட்ட நபர்… See more (जैकेट पतलून या स्कर्ट का जोड़ा) सूट, सूट, विशेष स्थिति में या विशेष गतिविधि के लिए पहनी जाने वाली पोशाक… See more સૂટ, એક જ કપડામાંથી બનાવેલ કોટ અને પાટલૂન વાળો પોશાક, કોઈ ખાસ પરિસ્થિતિ કે કોઈ ખાસ પ્રવૃતિ કરતી વેળા પહેરાતો પોશાક… See more jakkesæt, dragt, -dragt… See more kostym, dräkt, -dräkt… See more sut, baju, guaman… See more das Kostüm, der Prozess, der Antrag… See more dress [masculine], drakt [masculine], antrekk [neuter]… See more سوٹ, سوٹ (خاص موقع پر استعمال ہونے والا لباس), مطابق ہونا… See more костюм, позов, судовий процес… See more సూట్, సరిపోవడం, ఒక మనిషికి… See more স্যুট, একটি জ্যাকেট এবং ট্রাউজার্স বা একটি জ্যাকেট এবং স্কার্ট যা একই উপাদান থেকে তৈরি, জামাকাপড়ের একটি সেট বা কোনো পোশাক… See more oblek, kostým, úbor… See more setelan pakaian, pakaian, tuntutan… See more เครื่องแต่งกายที่เป็นเสื้อนอก และกางเกงขายาว, ชุด, คำร้อง… See more bộ com lê, trang phục, bộ quần áo… See more garnitur, kostium, kolor… See more 정장, (카드) 한 세트, -가 잘 어울리다… See more abito completo, tailleur, tuta… See more Need a translator?

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• fat suit
• NBC suit
• ski suit
• suit bag
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  • Noun 
    • suit (SET OF CLOTHES)
    • suit (LEGAL PROBLEM)
    • suit (PLAYING CARDS)
    • suit (PERSON)
  • Verb 
    • suit (BE RIGHT)
    • suit (BE CONVENIENT)
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• American   
  • Verb 
    • suit (WORK WELL)
  • Noun 
    • suit (CLOTHES)
    • suit (LEGAL CASE)
    • suit (CARD TYPE)
• Business   
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    • suit
    • file suit
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