How to pronounce “suit”

Meaning

• [Noun]
• (clothing) 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.
• (by extension) A garment or set of garments suitable and/or required for a given task or activity: space suit, boiler suit, protective suit, swimsuit.
• (Pakistan, women's speech) A dress.
• (derogatory, slang, metonymic) A person who wears matching jacket and trousers, especially a boss or a supervisor.
• A full set of armour.
• (law) 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.
• Petition, request, entreaty.
• (obsolete) The act of following or pursuing; pursuit, chase.
• Pursuit of a love-interest; wooing, courtship.
• (obsolete) The act of suing; the pursuit of a particular object or goal.
• The full set of sails required for a ship.
• (card games) Each of the sets of a pack of cards distinguished by colour and/or specific emblems, such as the spades, hearts, diamonds, or clubs of traditional Anglo, Hispanic, and French playing cards.
• (obsolete) Regular order; succession.
• (archaic) A company of attendants or followers; a retinue.
• (archaic) A group of similar or related objects or items considered as a whole; a suite (of rooms etc.)
• [Verb]
• (transitive) To make proper or suitable; to adapt or fit.
• (transitive, said of clothes, hairstyle or other fashion item) To be suitable or apt for one's image.
• (transitive, figurative) To be appropriate or apt for.
• (most commonly used in the passive form, intransitive) To dress; to clothe.
• (intransitive, transitive) To please; to make content; to fit someone's (or one's own) taste.
• (intransitive) To agree; to be fitted; to correspond (usually followed by to, archaically also followed by with).

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