Meaning of tailor-make | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To customize or create specifically to meet the requirements of an individual.
2. To make (clothes) by a tailor.

Equivalents

Examples

“Financial services software providers enable a customer to more or less constantly tailor-make his or her banking services.”

“Rather than casting around in the dark, you can now tailor-make something from scratch with someone who knows exactly what is needed — and even better, who now has a vested interest in using the material.”

“As we develop our skills at modelling, so we can adapt strategies to fit, tailor-make them for our personal preferences.”

“The employee was unable to fit into the largest size, and the arbitrator held that it was not reasonable for the company to be required to tailor-make each costume or uniform.”

“In the tailor-making process, the tailor must take time to get all the exact measurements to ensure a proper fit.”

“But what this has done is almost to define couture as anathema to dress, as if its contrast with the "prêt-à-porter" side of the fashion business is purchased with, not its "tailor-making" clothes that are fit to wear in a way those ready-to-wear never could be, but rather its making clothes that are not fit to wear at all!”

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