Suit Suːt Wearing Business Clothes Extra Examples Noun

• he was wearing a grey business suit.
• he is dressed in a formal black suit.
• they won't let you into the restaurant without a suit and tie.
• a two-/three-piece suit (= of two/three pieces of clothing)

suit

1. a set of clothes made of the same cloth, including a jacket and trousers or a skirt
• SEE ALSO dinner suit
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/dinner-suit
• He was wearing a grey business suit.
• He is dressed in a formal black suit.
• They won't let you into the restaurant without a suit and tie.
• a two-/three-piece suit (= of two/three pieces of clothing)
• a pinstripe suit

Extra Examples

• He wore his one good suit to the interview.
• Two men in suits came out of the hotel.
2. a set of clothing worn for a particular activity
• SEE ALSO bathing suit
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/bathing-suit
• a diving suit
• a suit of armour
• His parents had bought him a new suit of clothes for the occasion.
3. any of the four sets that form a pack of cards
• The suits are called hearts, clubs, diamonds and spades.

Extra Examples

• All the cards have to be from the same suit.
• The suit changed to diamonds.
• Which suit is trumps?
4. a claim or complaint against somebody that a person or an organization can make in court
• SEE ALSO paternity suit
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/paternity-suit
• 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
5. 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’.
6. to be a subject that somebody knows a lot about
• I'm afraid geography is not my strong suit.
7. to play a card of the same suit that has just been played
8. to act or behave in the way that somebody else has just done
9. not wearing any clothes

Word Origin

• Middle 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.