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suitor (s) (noun), suitors (pl)
1. Men or a man who is especially interested in a particular woman: "Jeanine was a young woman who had many suitors who wanted to have her as a wife."
2. A company that wants to buy another company: "Vaughn and his friends were trying to buy a controlling interest in the drug company."
This entry is located in the following units: -or; -our (primarily British) (page 14) sequ-, sequi-, secut-, suit-, -sue (page 6)