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tailor-making

tailor-making is the present participle and gerund of tailor-make.

Meaning of tailor-make

Verb

tailor-make (third-person singular simple present tailor-makes, present participle tailor-making, simple past and past participle tailor-made)

  1. To customize or create specifically to meet the requirements of an individual.
    • Financial services software providers enable a customer to more or less constantly tailor-make his or her banking services.2001, Richard Normann, Reframing Business: When the Map Changes the Landscape, →ISBN
  2. To make (clothes) by a tailor.
    • 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.1997, Journal of Individual Employment Rights - Volume 6, page 105

Questions about tailor-making

What is tailor-making the present participle and gerund of?
Tailor-making is the present participle and gerund of tailor-make.

Words near tailor-making in the dictionary

  1. tailor-fashion
  2. tailor-made
  3. tailor-mades
  4. tailor-make
  5. tailor-makes
  6. tailor-making
  7. tailor-style
  8. tailorability
  9. tailorable
  10. tailorage
  11. tailorbird

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tailor-making (page history and authors); tailor-make (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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