The difference between Company man and Suit
When used as nouns, company man means a male employee who has a great—and often, in the view of others, an excessive—commitment to serving the interests of the organization which employs him, whereas suit means a set of clothes to be worn together, now especially a man's matching jacket and trousers (also business suit or lounge suit), or a similar outfit for a woman.
Suit is also verb with the meaning: to make proper or suitable.
check bellow for the other definitions of Company man and Suit
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Company man as a noun (idiomatic):
A male employee who has a great—and often, in the view of others, an excessive—commitment to serving the interests of the organization which employs him.
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Company man as a noun (idiomatic):
A spy or other operative of an intelligence service, especially the U. S. Central Intelligence Agency.
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Company man as a noun (idiomatic):
A male homosexual.
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Suit as a noun:
A set of clothes to be worn together, now especially a man's matching jacket and trousers (also business suit or lounge suit), or a similar outfit for a woman.
Examples:
"Nick hired a navy-blue suit for the wedding."
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Suit as a noun (by extension):
A single garment that covers the whole body: space suit, boiler suit, protective suit.
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Suit as a noun (pejorative, slang, metonym):
A person who wears matching jacket and trousers, especially a boss or a supervisor.
Examples:
"Be sure to keep your nose to the grindstone today; the suits are making a "surprise" visit to this department."
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Suit as a noun:
A full set of armour.
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Suit as a noun (legal):
The attempt to gain an end by legal process; a process instituted in a court of law for the recovery of a right or claim; a lawsuit.
Examples:
"If you take my advice, you'll file a suit against him immediately."
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Suit as a noun:
The act of following or pursuing; pursuit, chase.
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Suit as a noun:
Pursuit of a love-interest; wooing, courtship.
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Suit as a noun (obsolete):
The act of suing; the pursuit of a particular object or goal.
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Suit as a noun:
The full set of sails required for a ship.
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Suit as a noun (card games):
Each of the sets of a pack of cards distinguished by color and/or specific emblems, such as the spades, hearts, diamonds or clubs of traditional Anglo, Hispanic and French playing cards.
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Suit as a noun (obsolete):
Regular order; succession.
Examples:
"Every five and thirty years the same kind and suit of weather comes again."
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Suit as a noun (archaic):
A company of attendants or followers; a retinue.
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Suit as a noun (archaic):
A group of similar or related objects or items considered as a whole; a suite (of rooms etc.)
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Suit as a verb (transitive):
To make proper or suitable; to adapt or fit.
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Suit as a verb (said of clothes, hairstyle or other fashion item, transitive):
To be suitable or apt for one's image.
Examples:
"The ripped jeans didn't suit her elegant image."
"That new top suits you. Where did you buy it?"
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Suit as a verb (transitive):
To be appropriate or apt for.
Examples:
"The nickname "Bullet" suits her, since she is a fast runner."
"Ill suits his cloth the praise of railing well."
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Suit as a verb (most commonly used in the passive form, intransitive):
To dress; to clothe.
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Suit as a verb:
To please; to make content; to fit one's taste.
Examples:
"He is well suited with his place."
"My new job suits me, as I work fewer hours and don't have to commute so much."
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Suit as a verb (intransitive):
To agree; to be fitted; to correspond (usually followed by to, archaically also followed by with)