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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
business suit
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ George, tall, handsome, in a well-cut business suit, is staring adoringly into her eyes.
▪ He hadn't even got a coat or overall to cover his business suit.
▪ He wore a business suit which lacked the elegance of his chief, Howard.
▪ He wore a charcoal-grey business suit, with a pristine white shirt and maroon silk tie.
▪ The business suit and bedroom suite are nearly obsolete.
WordNet
business suit

n. a suit of clothes traditionally worn by businessmen

Usage examples of "business suit".

He wore a black double-breasted business suit cut like nobody's business, a white shirt, a black tie.

The same woman -- probably -- led a tall man in a business suit to the bed and started kissing him.

Within a few hours of coming out of it, though, there appeared a young man in a neat business suit who asked many and would answer some.

He himself was still in his Washington clothes: a dark blue business suit.

Kyles swift glance took in the sleek lines of her teal business suit, the no-nonsense clip holding her hair at the nape of her neck, and the tension around her eyes and mouth.

One opened as she approached, and a short, stout man in a business suit looked out.

I turned round and looked at the man who stood there, a tall man in a well-cut dark business suit, cool penetrating grey eyes, a pleasant face that could stop being pleasant very quickly, very professional-looking.

One of the doors along the upstairs hall was guarded by a bored-looking young man in a gray business suit.

When he lifted his head over the rim, he saw a strange looking little man with a bald head and huge glasses, incongruously dressed in a business suit with shirt and tie, staring back at him.

She stripped off the business suit she had been wearing for two days and a night, and dumped it in the dry-cleaning basket.

Her palms were sweating and she rubbed them surreptitiously on the fabric of her dark blue business suit.

Today he was dressed, as in the old days, in a favorite combination of a high-necked shirt with fine green-and-white check and an ultraconservative business suit with a herringbone pattern of mixed brown and gray.