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tailor make

tailor make is the alternative spelling 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

Forms of tailor make

third-person singular presenttailor makes
present participletailor making
past participletailor made
pasttailor made

Questions about tailor make

What is tailor make the alternative spelling of?
Tailor make is the alternative spelling of tailor-make.

Words near tailor make in the dictionary

  1. tailnumber
  2. tailnumbers
  3. tailocin
  4. tailocins
  5. tailor
  6. tailor make
  7. tailor's
  8. tailor's chalk
  9. tailor's chalks
  10. tailor's dummy
  11. tailor's goose

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tailor make (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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