three-piece suit

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   a business suit consisting of a jacket and vest and trousers

   Broaderbusiness suit

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Questions about three-piece suit

What does three-piece suit mean?

three-piece suit means "a business suit consisting of a jacket and vest and trousers".

Is three-piece suit a common word?

three-piece suit is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.