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A suit, lounge suit, or business suit is a set of clothes comprising a suit jacket and trousers of identical textiles worn with a collared dress shirt, necktie, and dress shoes. A skirt suit is similar, but with a matching skirt instead of tr ...
is a set of garments with matching pieces, typically a jacket and trousers.
Suit or suits may also refer to:
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Suit (cards)
In playing cards, a suit is one of the categories into which the cards of a deck are divided. Most often, each card bears one of several pips (symbols) showing to which suit it belongs; the suit may alternatively or additionally be indicated by ...
, one of four groups into which a deck of cards is divided
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Lawsuit
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A lawsuit is a proceeding by a party or parties against another in the civil court of law. The archaic term "suit in law" is found in only a small number of laws still in effect today. The term "lawsuit" is used in reference to a civil actio ...
, an action brought before a court to recover a right or redress a grievance
Arts and media
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''Suit'' (album), a 2004 album by Nelly
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''Suits'' (album), a 1994 album by Fish
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''Suits'' (film), a 1999 American comedy film
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''Suits'' (American TV series), a 2011 series on the USA Network
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''Suits'' (South Korean TV series), a Korean remake of the U.S. series
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''Suits'' (Japanese TV series), a Japanese remake of the U.S. series
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''Suits'' (Arabic TV series), an Egyptian remake of the U.S. series
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Suit & Tie", a song by Justin Timberlake
Clothing
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Beekeeping suit, worn by an
apiarist
A beekeeper is a person who keeps honey bees.
Beekeepers are also called honey farmers, apiarists, or less commonly, apiculturists (both from the Latin '' apis'', bee; cf. apiary). The term beekeeper refers to a person who keeps honey bees i ...
to prevent stings when handling
honeybee
A honey bee (also spelled honeybee) is a eusocial flying insect within the genus ''Apis'' of the bee clade, all native to Afro-Eurasia. After bees spread naturally throughout Africa and Eurasia, humans became responsible for the current cosmo ...
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Boilersuit
A boilersuit (or boiler suit), also known as coveralls, is a loose fitting garment covering the whole body except for the head, hands and feet.
Terminology
The term ''boilersuit'' is most common in the UK, where the 1989 edition of the ''Oxfo ...
, or coverall, a loose-fitting one-piece clothing
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Diving suit
A diving suit is a garment or device designed to protect a diver from the underwater environment. A diving suit may also incorporate a breathing gas supply (such as for a standard diving dress or atmospheric diving suit). but in most cases the te ...
, for use under water
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Dry suit
A dry suit or drysuit provides the wearer with environmental protection by way of thermal insulation and exclusion of water, and is worn by divers, boaters, water sports enthusiasts, and others who work or play in or near cold or contaminated ...
, for use in colder water, or where hazardous chemicals may be encountered
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Wetsuit
A wetsuit is a garment worn to provide thermal protection while wet. It is usually made of foamed neoprene, and is worn by surfing, surfers, Underwater diving, divers, windsurfers, canoeists, and others engaged in water sports and other activit ...
, for use in warmer water
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Environmental suit, a clothing used for a particular activity or environment
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Jumpsuit
A jumpsuit is a one-piece garment with sleeves and legs and typically without integral coverings for feet, hands or head. The original jump suit is the functional one-piece garment used by parachuting, parachuters.
The original skydivers' j ...
, a one-piece clothing with sleeves and legs
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Leisure suit
A leisure suit is a casual suit consisting of a shirt-like jacket and matching trousers (pants)["Leisur ...](_blank)
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Racing suit
A racing suit or racing overalls, often referred to as a fire suit due to its fire retardant properties, is clothing such as overalls worn in various forms of auto racing by racing drivers, crew members who work on the vehicles during races, tra ...
, a special clothing worn by racing drivers during races
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Ski suit
A ski suit is a suit made to be worn over the rest of the clothes when skiing or snowboarding.[Space suit
A space suit or spacesuit is a garment worn to keep a human alive in the harsh environment of outer space, vacuum and temperature extremes. Space suits are often worn inside spacecraft as a safety precaution in case of loss of cabin pressure, ...](_blank)
, for use in outer space
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Swimsuit
A swimsuit is an item of clothing designed to be worn by people engaging in a water-based activity or List of water sports, water sports, such as swimming, Diving (sport), diving and surfing, or sun-orientated activities, such as sun bathing. Di ...
, a clothing for use in water sports or sunbathing
See also
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Suite (disambiguation)
Suite may refer to:
Arts and entertainment
*Suite (music), a set of musical pieces considered as one composition
** Suite (Bach), a list of suites composed by J. S. Bach
** Suite (Cassadó), a mid-1920s composition by Gaspar Cassadó
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