Meaning & use
following suit
Doing the same thing that someone else has just done, often after they set an example.
See it in a sentence
One store cut its prices, and its competitors quickly followed suit.
When the manager started arriving early, the rest of the staff followed suit.
A note on using this word
The phrase comes from card games, where players must play a card of the same suit as the one led.
Words with a similar meaning
doing likewise
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