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Tailor

//ˈteɪlɚ// name, noun, verb

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname originating as an occupation for a tailor.
Noun
  1. 1
    A person who makes, repairs, or alters clothes professionally, especially suits and men's clothing.

    "He works as a tailor on Swanston Street."

  2. 2
    a person whose occupation is making and altering garments wordnet
  3. 3
    Bluefish (Pomatomus saltatrix). Australia

    "The tailor — is that a sea fish — a line fish? It is a sea fish, but not a line fish. They will bite at a line, but they are not a fish you can depend on with the line."

Verb
  1. 1
    To make, repair, or alter clothes. ambitransitive

    "We can tailor that jacket for you if you like."

  2. 2
    adjust to a specific need or market wordnet
  3. 3
    To make or adapt (something) for a specific need. figuratively, transitive

    "The website was tailored to the client's needs."

  4. 4
    create (clothes) with cloth wordnet
  5. 5
    To restrict (something) in order to meet a particular need. figuratively, transitive

    "a narrowly tailored law"

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  1. 6
    style and tailor in a certain fashion wordnet

Etymology

Etymology 1

Inherited from Middle English taillour, from Anglo-Norman taillour, from Old French tailleor, from taillier, from Late Latin tāliō, from Latin tālea (“a cutting”). Doublet of tailleur.

Etymology 2

Inherited from Middle English taillour, from Anglo-Norman taillour, from Old French tailleor, from taillier, from Late Latin tāliō, from Latin tālea (“a cutting”). Doublet of tailleur.

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