Collins English-English Dictionary

suit [suːt]

1. 1. n any set of clothes of the same or similar material designed to be worn together, now usually (for men) a jacket with matching trousers or (for women) a jacket with matching or contrasting skirt or trousers

2. 2. n [in combination] any outfit worn for a specific purpose

   a spacesuit

3. 3. n any set of items, such as the full complement of sails of a vessel or parts of personal armour

4. 4. n any of the four sets of 13 cards in a pack of playing cards, being spades, hearts, diamonds, and clubs. The cards in each suit are two to ten, jack, queen, and king in the usual order of ascending value, with ace counting as either the highest or lowest according to the game

5. 5. n a civil proceeding; lawsuit

6. 6. n the act or process of suing in a court of law

7. 7. n a petition or appeal made to a person of superior rank or status or the act of making such a petition

8. 8. n [slang] a business executive or white-collar manager

9. 9. n a man's courting of a woman

10. 10. vb to make or be fit or appropriate for

    that dress suits you

11. 11. vb to meet the requirements or standards (of)

12. 12. vb to be agreeable or acceptable to (someone)

13. 13. vb [Etymology] C13: from Old French sieute set of things, from sivre to follow; compare sue