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Suit Definition–noun | 1. | a set of clothing, armor, or the like, intended for wear together. | | 2. | a set of men's garments of the same color and fabric, consisting of trousers, a jacket, and sometimes a vest. | | 3. | a similarly matched set consisting of a skirt and jacket, and sometimes a topcoat or blouse, worn by women. | | 4. | any costume worn for some special activity: a running suit. | | 5. | Slang. a business executive. | | 6. | Law. the act, the process, or an instance of suing in a court of law; legal prosecution; lawsuit. | | 7. | Cards. | a. | one of the four set
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s or classes (spades, hearts, diamonds, and clubs) into which a common deck of playing cards is divided. | | b. | the aggregate of cards belonging to one of these sets held in a player's hand at one time: Spades were his long suit. | | c. | one of various sets or classes into which less common decks of cards are divided, as lances, hammers, etc., found in certain decks formerly used or used in fortune telling. | | | 9. | the wooing or courting of a woman: She rejected his suit. | | 10. | the act of making a petition or a
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n appeal. | | 11. | a petition, as to a person of rank or station. | | 12. | Also called set. Nautical. a complete group of sails for a boat. | | 13. | one of the seven classes into which a standard set of 28 dominoes may be divided by matching the numbers on half the face of each: a three suit contains the 3-blank, 3-1, 3-2, 3-3, 3-4, 3-5, and 3-6. Since each such suit contains one of each of the other possible suits, only one complete suit is available per game. | –verb (used with object) | 14. | to make appropriate, adapt, or accommodate, as one thing to another: to suit the punishment to the crime. | | 15. | to be appropriate or becoming to: Blue suits you very well. | | 16. | to be or prove satisfactory, agreeable, or acceptable to; satisfy or please: The arrangements suit me. | | 17. | to provide with a suit, as of clothing or armor; clothe; array. | –verb (used without object) | 18. | to be appropriate or suitable; accord. | | 19. | to be satisfactory, agreeable, or acceptable. | —Verb phrase | 20. | suit up, to dress in a uniform or special suit. | —Idiom | 21. | follow suit, | a. | Cards. to play a card of the same suit as that led. | | b. | to follow the example of another: The girl jumped over the fence, and her playmates followed suit. | | |
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Propeller - Found Jan. 7, 2009
0 Click Prop It to Raise Score The recession will, so we're told, sort the girlies from the women, and the conquering armour will be the suit.
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Female inmate described rapes in suit against state
The Detroit Free Press - Found Jan. 6, 2009
The women file suit, claiming that state prison officials ignored warnings of abuse by the guards. Now, a jury gets to hear their testimony.
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Mail Online UK - Found Jan. 5, 2009
Asda last year produced a women's suit for £24 and a men's suit for £15. Its new season £19 'Perfect Fit' men's suit was launched last week.
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dress for less in the new £20 women's suit from Asda
Mail Online UK - Found Jan. 4, 2009
... last year produced a men's suit for £15, have now created the cheapest women's suit on the market for £20. The 'City suit' comprises a one...
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Power dress for less in the new £20 women's suit from Asda
Mail Online UK - Found Jan. 4, 2009
... last year produced a men's suit for £15, have now created the cheapest women's suit on the market for £20. The 'City suit' comprises a one...
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Power dress for less in the new £20 women's suit from Asda
Mail Online UK - Found Jan. 4, 2009
... last year produced a men's suit for £15, have now created the cheapest women's suit on the market for £20. The 'City suit' comprises a one...
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Ted Lapidus, Designer Who Reshaped French Fashion, Is Dead at 79
New York Times - Found Dec. 31, 2008
Ted Lapidus, the designer who shook up French fashion in the 1960s and 70s with the safari suit, military jackets for women and ready-to-wear unisex
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The £20 Suit
FemaleFirst.co.uk - Found Jan. 6, 2009
... their latest credit crunch busting suit. The £20 'City Suit' for women was created by George, the supermarkets label. The tailored suit is...
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UPublish.info - Found Nov. 4, 2008
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