Tailor
noun
A person whose job is making, repairing, or altering clothes.
The suit was custom made by a professional tailor.
Often appears as...
- tailor made
- tailor shop
verb
To make or change something to suit specific needs or conditions.
We tailor our services to meet the needs of our clients.
Often appears as...
- tailor made
- tailor services
noun
A person whose job is making, repairing, or altering clothes.
The suit was custom made by a professional tailor.
Often appears as...
- tailor made
- tailor shop
verb
To make or change something to suit specific needs or conditions.
We tailor our services to meet the needs of our clients.
Often appears as...
- tailor made
- tailor services
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Occupational Term
Used to describe someone's profession in clothing manufacture and adjustments.
Maria became a tailor after completing her apprenticeship.
Pro Tip 2/3Gender Neutral
The term 'tailor' applies to all genders, unlike 'dressmaker' or 'seamstress' which suggest female.
The tailor, regardless of gender, repaired my jacket perfectly.
Pro Tip 3/3Cultural Respect
Being a tailor is considered a respected trade in many cultures due to the skill involved.
In our town, the tailor is as respected as the mayor.
Pro Tip 1/3Occupational Term
Used to describe someone's profession in clothing manufacture and adjustments.
Maria became a tailor after completing her apprenticeship.
Pro Tip 2/3Gender Neutral
The term 'tailor' applies to all genders, unlike 'dressmaker' or 'seamstress' which suggest female.
The tailor, regardless of gender, repaired my jacket perfectly.
Pro Tip 3/3Cultural Respect
Being a tailor is considered a respected trade in many cultures due to the skill involved.
In our town, the tailor is as respected as the mayor.
Pro Tip 1/3Occupational Term
Used to describe someone's profession in clothing manufacture and adjustments.
Maria became a tailor after completing her apprenticeship.
Pro Tip 2/3Gender Neutral
The term 'tailor' applies to all genders, unlike 'dressmaker' or 'seamstress' which suggest female.
The tailor, regardless of gender, repaired my jacket perfectly.
Pro Tip 3/3Cultural Respect
Being a tailor is considered a respected trade in many cultures due to the skill involved.
In our town, the tailor is as respected as the mayor.
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Rob Knight: How our...
This is truly amazing because it suggests that we can pilot therapies by trying them out in a whole bunch of different mice with individual people's gut communities and perhaps tailor those therapies all the way down to the individual level. So I think it's really important that everyone has a chance to participate in this discovery.
Video examples
How AI could compose a...
and it's really hard to do that for every theater in the world. So when music recording was actually invented, it allowed content creators, like film creators, to have prerecorded and original music tailored to each and every frame of their stories. And that was really an enhancer of creativity.
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How do glasses help us...
but they're also much more precise and personal. Each pair is tailored for an individual to bring out their unique powers of sight. So if you're one of the 500 million people with a problem with close or far vision, or both, there's a pair of glasses out there waiting to reveal a whole new world
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How optical illusions...
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How does caffeine keep...
Neurons in your brain have receptors perfectly tailored to this molecule. When adenosine docks to these receptors, it activates a cascade of biochemical reactions that cause neurons to fire more sluggishly and slow the release of important brain-signaling molecules.
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How shared knowledge can...
about animal to animal knowledge transfer I'm not your typical dog and cat veterinarian I worked with marine mammals and we often know very little about them so we have to use what we know about other species or situations and tailor them to help new patients
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Stone Clothing PIPE The...
they'll be talking a nice stone suit yeah so this thing is totally tailored fit to the body oh wow let me use your camera see what I'm doing slathered on his skin this clay will provide much-needed protection until he can reach his new leathers but
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How to find the person...
I said, wow, this person can't be a mentor, because a mentor's job is to give you tailored advice, tailored specifically to you and to your career aspirations. They're the ones who give you the good, the bad and the ugly in a no-holds-barred way.
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that will release specific signals, and carefully tailor our bodies’ immune reactions. In the future, this way of working alongside the immune system could help us develop completely artificial organs, totally integrative prostheses,
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What makes life worth...
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Canadian Actor
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American Musician
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Zoe Quinn
American Artist
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Imran Amed
Canadian Editor
Know your target audience. Always keep them at the forefront of your mind. Understand their lifestyle and what they are looking for. Gather their feedback and use it to tailor your approach. The voice of the consumer is an essential input into the development of any fashion business or blog.
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Matthew Williamson
British Designer
As the label has developed over the years, more and more structure and tailored pieces have been added, and so, whilst the core values of the brand have remained, I feel it's important to try new things and add more layers and dimensions to a collection every season.
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Ozwald Boateng
English Designer
When I started, department stores were either very fashion, or very tailored, so the two never mixed. I mixed it, and they said you're too tailored for fashion and too fashion for tailoring. So I had to move the market. So that's what I did.
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Neve Campbell
Canadian Actress
You're being cast for your acting ability. It's not based on the way your body functions. If you're playing a lead in a movie, it's for that character and they'll tailor it to you. In a dance company, you have to fit in a definite mold.
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Mark Schlereth
You're training to be fit, not to make a squad, and introducing new exercises and routines that are tailored towards your goals will help you win the game you're playing now: life.
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Aung San Suu Kyi
Burmese Activist
Whatever help we may want from the international community now or in the future, we want to make sure that this help is tailored to help our people to help themselves.
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Kay Kay Menon
Indian Actor
The whole format of an awards function seems to be tailor made for a television audience. I think it is just an ego boosting affair.
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Ryan Reynolds
Canadian Actor
A well-tailored suit is important - and I don't like wearing belts with mine - it should be tailored to your body.
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Rick James
American Musician
I'm really not tailored for responsibility.
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