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suit
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suit (plural suits)
- Pursuit
- (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.
- If you take my advice, you"ll file suit against him immediately.
- (obsolete): The act of following or pursuing; pursuit, chase.
- (obsolete) The act of suing; the pursuit of a particular object or goal.
- Thenceforth the suit of earthly conquest shone. —Spenser.
- Pusuit of a love-interest; wooing, courtship.
- Rebate your loves, each rival suit suspend, Till this funereal web my labors end. —Pope.
- (archaic) A company of attendants or followers; a retinue.
- (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.
- Set, series
- (archaic) A group of similar or related objects or items considered as a whole; a suite (of rooms etc.).
- The full set of sails required for a ship.
- A set of clothes to be worn together, now especially a man"s matching jacket and trousers, or a similar outfit for a woman.
- Nick hired a navy-blue suit for the wedding.
- (slang) A person who wears the clothes in 3.
- A full set of armour.
- (card games): Each of the sets of a pack of cards distinguished by color and/or specific emblems, such as the spades, hearts, diamonds, or clubs of traditional Anglo, Hispanic, and French playing cards.
- To deal and shuffle, to divide and sort Her mingled suits and sequences. —Cowper.
- (obsolete): Regular order; succession.
- Every five and thirty years the same kind and suit of weather comes again. —Bacon.
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4 letters in word "suit": I S T U.
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