suit (original) (raw)

suit noun (SET OF CLOTHES)

diving suit

protective suit

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malpractice suit

negligence suit

paternity suit

suit noun (PLAYING CARDS)

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suit noun (PERSON)

Grammar

Idioms

Phrasal verb

suit yourself!

idiom informal

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(Definition of suit from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

suit | American Dictionary

suit verb [T] (WORK WELL)

Phrasal verb

suit noun [C] (CLOTHES)

suit noun [C] (CARD TYPE)

(Definition of suit from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

Examples of suit

suit

With programmable control, the prosthetic team can create virtually any control scheme that suits a person's unique abilities.

A theoretical perspective that is well suited to guiding the empirical investigation of such pathways may be found in the field of developmental psychopathology.

Photonics forces, but they are low degree of freedom and not well suited to this scale of precision.

Second, the 1-ha method clearly suits many purposes reasonably well - as we discuss further below it is an important multi-purpose protocol.

The five codes discussed show large differences in the physics included and the mesh handling, which makes them suited to different problems.

Policy makers should neither ask for firm conclusions when they do not exist, nor interpret scientific results to suit preferred policy outcomes.

Such singing activities would be specifically designed to suit pre-pubertal children.

A man dressed in a secondhand overcoat, in a used and worn out suit, a man whose face no longer had any human characteristics.

As it would appear, nothing is better suited to prevent a revolutionary upheaval than the licensed revolt enacted in carnival.

This tailoring of approaches to suit his intended audience depended upon a careful appreciation of the desires of each party and strict secrecy.

They completely lack any apparatus suited to confronting phenomena of this order.

Forms of human intervention include supplying information and energy, physically assisting the robot and modifying the environment to suit the robot.

Some research has begun to examine family experiences in dynamic ways which may be suited to future evaluations of welfare reform policy.

However, four mitigating factors make an explosion of suits unlikely, even were this more expansive form of liability officially recognized.

His real motive here though is to show us how poorly suited are "top down" approaches to reproductive ethics.

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Collocations with suit

These are words often used in combination with suit.

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black suit

A reporter interviewed the bodyguard with the prince who was wearing a smart black suit.

blue suit

He wanted not to get rid of the gentleman in the blue suit and white shirt but to put him on the jury.

civil suit

If, however, the testimony was such that it would subject the witness to a debt action or a civil suit, the privilege was not available.

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