suit

noun

• 1a set of outer clothes made of the same fabric and designed to be worn together, typically consisting of a jacket and trousers or a jacket and skirt.
• a set of clothes to be worn on a particular occasion or for a particular activity:a jogging suit
• a complete set of pieces of armor for covering the whole body.
• a complete set of sails required for a ship or for a set of spars.
• (usually suits) informal an executive in a business or organization, typically one regarded as exercising influence in an impersonal way:maybe now the suits in Washington will listen

• 2any of the sets distinguished by their pictorial symbols into which a deck of playing cards is divided, in conventional decks comprising spades, hearts, diamonds, and clubs.

• 3short for lawsuit.
• the process of trying to win a woman’s affection, typically with a view to marriage:he could not compete with John’s charms in Marian’s eyes and his suit came to nothing
• literary a petition or entreaty made to a person in authority.

verb

• 1 [with object] be convenient for or acceptable to:he lied whenever it suited him [no object]:the apartment has two bedrooms—if it suits, you can have one of them
• (suit oneself) [often in imperative] act entirely according to one’s own wishes (often used to express the speaker’s annoyance):“I’m not going to help you.” “Suit yourself.”
• go well with or enhance the features, figure, or character of (someone):the dress didn’t suit her
• (suit something to) archaic adapt or make appropriate for (something):they took care to suit their answers to the questions put to them

• 2 [no object] put on clothes, typically for a particular activity:I suited up and entered the water