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Suit is a term with various meanings:

A lawsuit
Lawsuit

In law, a lawsuit is a civil action brought before a court in which the party commencing the action, called the plaintiff, seeks a legal remedy or equitable remedy....
, an action brought before a court, as to recover a right or redress a grievance
Suit (clothing)
Suit (clothing)

The man's suit of clothes is a set of garments which are crafted from the same cloth. The word suit derives from the French language suite, meaning "following", because the trousers and waistcoat follow the jacket's cloth and colour....
, a set of garments with matching pieces, including at least a coat and trousers.
Environmental suit
Environmental suit

An environmental suit is a suit designed specifically for a particular environment, usually one otherwise hostile to humans. An environment suit is typically a one-piece garment, and many types also feature a helmet or other covering for the head....
, a piece of clothing used for a particular activity or in a particular environment; for example a space suit or diving suit
Jumpsuit
Jumpsuit

Jumpsuit originally referred to the utilitarian one-piece garments used by parachuting and skydiving, but has come to be used as a common term for any one-piece garment with sleeves and legs....
, catsuit
Catsuit

A catsuit is a skin-tight one-piece garment usually with long sleeves and leggings, mostly used in fashion, sexual fetishism and erotic context....
, wetsuit
Wetsuit

Wetsuits help to preserve body heat by trapping a layer of water against the skin; this water is consequently warmed by body heat and acts as an insulator....
, or swimsuit
One-piece swimsuit

A one-piece swimsuit is a usually skin-tight garment one-piece swimsuit used by women when swimming in the sea or in a swimming pool. The one-piece swimsuit usually covers the genitalia, the breasts and all of the front of the body in between....
, a one-piece outfit.
Suit (cards)
Suit (cards)

In playing cards, a suit is one of several categories into which the cards of a deck are divided. Most often, each card bears one of several symbols showing to which suit it belongs; the suit may alternatively or in addition be indicated by the color printed on the card....
, one of four categories into which a deck of cards is divided.
Slang, in the form of a synecdoche
Synecdoche

Synecdoche is a figure of speech in which:* a term denoting a part of something is used to refer to the whole thing , or* a term denoting a thing is used to refer to part of it , or...
, for a professional
Professional

A professional is a person who has completed a doctoral or law program or equivalent .A professional is someone who has a professional degree - a number one on the Hollingshead scale....
, The Establishment
The Establishment

The Establishment is a term used to refer to the traditional ruling class elite and the structures of society that they control. The term can be used to describe specific entrenched elite structures in specific institutions, but is usually informal in application....
, management
Management

Management in business and human organization activity is simply the act of getting people together to accomplish desired goals. Management comprises planning, organizing, staffing, leadership or directing, and Control an organization or effort for the purpose of accomplishing a goal....
or government employee, because they wear the aforementioned formal suit
Suit (album)
Suit (album)

Suit is one of the two albums that St. Louis, Missouri rapper Nelly released in 2004. It is the album with more contemporary R&B groove, and it seems to be the more popular album of the two, by debuting at #1 with 396,000 copies sold in its first week on the Billboard 200, while on the same week, the Sweat album debuted at #2 selling...
, the name of one of rapper Nelly's 2004 albums
Suits (album)
Suits (album)

Suits is the fourth solo album by former Marillion singer Fish , and his third studio album with original material . It is the first album to be released on Fish's new own label, the Dick Bros Record Company, which he set up after being dropped by Polydor....
, the third album by Fish
Suit (comic)
Suit (comic)

Suit is a fictional character set in the Marvel universe first appearing in the Venom #2 mini-series. He is made of tiny alien robots discovered by Reed Richards....
, a fictional character in the Marvel universe, appearing first in the Venom series
Suits (film), a 1999 film starring Robert Klein, Tony Hendra, Larry Pine, Paul Lazar and Randy Pearlstein