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(Q614806) (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.

(women's speech) A dress.

(metonym) 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.

(cards) (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.)

To make proper or suitable; to adapt or fit.

(said of clothes, hairstyle or other fashion item) To be suitable or apt for one's image.

(figurative) To be appropriate or apt for.

To dress; to clothe.

To please; to make content; to fit someone's (or one's own) taste.

To agree; to be fitted; to correspond (usually followed by ''to'', archaically also followed by ''with'').

📑 Synonyms: agree match answer