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noun

a person whose occupation is the making, mending, or altering of clothes, especially suits, coats, and other outer garments.

verb (used with object)

to make by tailor's work.

to fashion or adapt to a particular taste, purpose, need, etc.: to tailor one's actions to those of another.

to fit or furnish with clothing.

Chiefly U.S. Military. to make (a uniform) to order; cut (a ready-made uniform) so as to cause to fit more snugly; taper.

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verb (used without object)

to do the work of a tailor.

Origin:
1250–1300; Middle English (noun) < Anglo-French tailour, Old French tailleor, equivalent to taill(ier) to cut (< Late Latin tāliāre, derivative of Latin tālea a cutting, literally, heel-piece; see tally) + -or -or²

Example Sentences

Just because a tailor produced a nice piece of work while you were there to tell him.

Add any of the following enhancements to tailor your job ad to your unique hiring needs.

It should be possible to tailor these so that sound waves are bent such that no echo results.

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Just because a tailor produced a nice piece of work while you were there to tell him.

Add any of the following enhancements to tailor your job ad to your unique hiring needs.

It should be possible to tailor these so that sound waves are bent such that no echo results.

For trek-it-alone types, the trail system makes it easier to tailor an ideal two- or three-section expedition.

The newest targeted therapies are helping doctors to tailor increasingly effective treatments to individual patients.

Blues musicians frequented local hairdressers, tailor shops and clothing stores.

Let your imagination take wing as you tailor these gifts to their recipients' interests.

Unlike other specs, these come with a companion smartphone app to tailor them for your eyes only.

Mohsenin to conclude that he could tailor the online design model to fit all sorts of books.

Only if you tailor your presentation and results to impress each audience.

Years of continuous growth have taught the auction houses how to tailor sales to suit their audience.

Researchers must, however, tailor therapy to the challenges of each disease.

Have partygoers ladle soup into mugs or small bowls, and offer condiments so they can tailor each soup to their liking.

Customizable icon menu can tailor apps for each subject.

It's critical, before your interview, to take time to do some research that will allow you to tailor your responses.

China, the world's workshop, is poised to become its tailor.

Researchers can use it to look for mutations unique to their areas-and to tailor their control strategies around them.

To tailor your hose to various water situations, you can choose from these attachments.

Boeing believes this will allow airlines to tailor training to their specific needs.

We cannot stress enough how important it is to tailor your application materials to a particular opening.

Many firms tailor their services to silver shoppers without letting on, explains a marketing specialist.

Researchers will have new targets-neurotransmitters rather than proteins-toward which to tailor their therapies.

In particular, they want a tutoring capability that is smart enough to tailor its approach each student.

Tailor your presentation for mid-level students, not for intro students.

The focus would switch to more individual diagnostic testing so that teachers could tailor their lessons accordingly.

But you can also tailor the embedded nanoparticles to suit a particular application.

Eight digital-signal processing modes allow listeners to tailor the sound to their taste.

Whatever you do you are going to have to tailor your syllabus to what is available.

On the other hand are companies that tailor their products or services for each local market.

We may have to tailor robots to specific individuals.

Every donor is different, so listen to how they describe their wants and needs, and tailor your approach to them.

Advertisers can tailor their pitch to the time of day:.

The company's feedback-driven retailing system allows it to tailor each line almost instantly to shifts in taste and demand.

To avoid having all of your letters say the same thing, tailor your written statements to each recommender.

The first manufacturers to tailor products to particular customers have, not surprisingly, been selling to other businesses.

Tailor them to the specific goals of the grant agency.

The one place where you want to tailor your teaching information is to match what is posted in a specific job.

The professor can tailor his or her approach to the students on the fly.

HR on many campuses don't bother to tailor the generic job application software to faculty positions.

It's trivially easy to tailor the job requirements to a candidate or a group of candidates.

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Dictionary.com Unabridged

noun British Dialect.

a stroke of a bell indicating someone's death; knell.

Origin:
alteration by folk etymology of teller

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World English Dictionary

tailor (ˈteɪlə)

—n
1.	a person who makes, repairs, or alters outer garments, esp menswearRelated: sartorial
2.	a voracious and active marine food fish, Pomatomus saltator, of Australia with scissor-like teeth

—vb
3.	to cut or style (material, clothes, etc) to satisfy certain requirements
4.	(tr) to adapt so as to make suitable for something specific: he tailored his speech to suit a younger audience
5.	(intr) to follow the occupation of a tailor

Related: sartorial

[C13: from Anglo-Norman taillour, from Old French taillier to cut, from Latin tālea a cutting; related to Greek talis girl of marriageable age]

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Word Origin & History

tailor

1296, from Anglo-Fr. tailour, from O.Fr. tailleor "tailor," lit. "a cutter," from tailler "to cut," from M.L. taliator vestium "a cutter of clothes," from L.L. taliare "to split," from L. talea "a slender stick, rod, staff, a cutting, twig," on the notion of a piece of a plant cut for grafting. Possible

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cognates include Skt. talah "wine palm," O.Lith. talokas "a young girl," Gk. talis "a marriageable girl" (for sense, cf. slip of a girl, twiggy), Etruscan Tholna, name of the goddess of youth.

"Although historically the tailor is the cutter, in the trade the 'tailor' is the man who sews or makes up what the 'cutter' has shaped." [OED]

The verb is recorded from 1662; fig. sense of "to design (something) to suit needs" is attested from 1942. Tailor-made first recorded 1832 (in a fig. sense); originally "heavy and plain," as of women's garments made by a tailor rather than a dress-maker.

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