suit

[[t]sut[/t]]

n.

1) clo a set of clothing, armor, or the like, intended for wear together

2) clo a set of garments of the same color and fabric, consisting typically of trousers or a skirt, a jacket, and sometimes a vest

3) clo any costume worn for some special activity

4) law

a) an act or instance of suing in a court of law; lawsuit

b) a petition or appeal

5) gam

a) one of the classes into which cards or dominoes are divided, as spades, clubs, diamonds, and hearts for a deck of common playing cards

b) a holding of cards in a particular suit

6) the wooing or courting of a woman

7) a petition

8) fur

suite 1), suite 2), suite 3), suite 5)

9) cvb sts Slang. a business executive

10) to make appropriate, adapt, or accommodate, as one thing to another:

to suit the punishment to the crime[/ex]

11) to be appropriate or becoming to:

Blue suits you very well[/ex]

12) to be acceptable or agreeable to; satisfy or please:

The arrangements suit me[/ex]

13) clo to provide with a suit, as of clothing or armor; clothe; array

14) to be appropriate or suitable; accord

15) to be satisfactory, agreeable, or acceptable

16) phv spo clo suit up, to put on a uniform or special suit

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- follow suit

Etymology: 1250–1300; ME siute, sute, suite (n.) < AF, OF, n. use of fem. ptp. of sivre to follow; see sue