suit [countable]
1 clothes
a set of clothes made of the same material, usually including a
jacket with trousers or a skirt:
a grey light-weight suit
a business suit
a tweed suit
She was wearing a black trouser suit.
2 bathing/jogging etc suit
a piece of clothing or a set of clothes used for swimming,
running etc ➔ boiler suit, shell suit, sweat suit, tracksuit, wet suit
3 law
a problem or complaint that a person or company brings to a
court of law to be settled [= lawsuit]:
Johnson has filed suit against her.
a civil suit
4 office worker
informal a man, especially a manager, who works in an office and
who has to wear a suit when he is at work:
I bought myself a mobile phone and
joined the other suits on the train to the City.
5 cards
one of the four types of cards in a set of playing cards
6 somebody's strong suit
something that you are good at:
Sympathy is not Jack's strong suit.
➔ in your birthday suit
➔ follow suit
Definition from the Longman Dictionary
of Contemporary English
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