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someone's strongest suit

Variant of suit

noun

    1. a set of clothes to be worn together; now, esp., a coat and trousers (or skirt), and sometimes a vest, usually all of the same material
    2. any complete outfit: a suit of armor
  1. Slang a person wearing a suit; specif., a business executive or a bureaucrat: usually a term of mild derision
  2. a group of similar things forming a set or series; specif., any of the four sets of thirteen playing cards each (spades, clubs, hearts, and diamonds) that together make up a pack
  3. Historical attendance at the court or manor of a feudal lord
  4. action to secure justice in a court of law; attempt to recover a right or claim through legal action
    1. an act of suing, pleading, or requesting
    2. a petition
  5. the act of wooing; courtship

transitive verb

  1. to meet the requirements of; be right for or appropriate to; befit
  2. to make right or appropriate; fit; adapt
  3. to please; satisfy: anything that suits your fancy
  4. to furnish with clothes, esp. with a suit

intransitive verb

  1. Archaic to correspond or harmonize: usually with to or with
  2. to be fit, suitable, convenient, or satisfactory

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2010 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio. Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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