"tailor-make" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "Back formation from tailor-made.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "tailor-makes",
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        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "tailor-making",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "tailor-made",
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        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "tailor-made",
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        "past"
      ]
    }
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2001, Richard Normann, Reframing Business: When the Map Changes the Landscape, →ISBN:",
          "text": "Financial services software providers enable a customer to more or less constantly tailor-make his or her banking services.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2004, Eric Beall, Susan Gedutis Lindsay, Making Music Make Money, →ISBN:",
          "text": "Rather than casting around in the dark, you can now tailor-make something from scratch with someone who knows exactly what is needed — and even better, who now has a vested interest in using the material.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2007, Andrew Lynch, How to Make a Good Mind Great, →ISBN, page 212:",
          "text": "As we develop our skills at modelling, so we can adapt strategies to fit, tailor-make them for our personal preferences.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To customize or create specifically to meet the requirements of an individual."
      ],
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      "links": [
        [
          "customize",
          "customize"
        ],
        [
          "create",
          "create"
        ],
        [
          "individual",
          "individual"
        ]
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "98 2",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "to customize or create specifically",
          "word": "maßschneidern"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "98 2",
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "to customize or create specifically",
          "word": "customizar"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "98 2",
          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "to customize or create specifically",
          "word": "skräddarsy"
        }
      ]
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1997, Journal of Individual Employment Rights - Volume 6, page 105:",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2003, Tara Keeling, Awesome Mysteries Beyond Heaven's Gate, →ISBN, page 86:",
          "text": "In the tailor-making process, the tailor must take time to get all the exact measurements to ensure a proper fit.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, Sinead Murphy, The Art Kettle, →ISBN, page 54:",
          "text": "But what this has done is almost to define couture as anathema to dress, as if its contrast with the \"prêt-à-porter\" side of the fashion business is purchased with, not its \"tailor-making\" clothes that are fit to wear in a way those ready-to-wear never could be, but rather its making clothes that are not fit to wear at all!",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To make (clothes) by a tailor."
      ],
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      "links": [
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          "tailor"
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        {
          "_dis1": "0 100",
          "word": "tailor make"
        }
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      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "7 93",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "to make by a tailor",
          "word": "maßschneidern"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "7 93",
          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "to make by a tailor",
          "word": "skräddarsy"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "tailor-make"
}

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  "etymology_text": "Back formation from tailor-made.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "tailor-makes",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "tailor-making",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
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    },
    {
      "form": "tailor-made",
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        "past"
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    },
    {
      "form": "tailor-made",
      "tags": [
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2001, Richard Normann, Reframing Business: When the Map Changes the Landscape, →ISBN:",
          "text": "Financial services software providers enable a customer to more or less constantly tailor-make his or her banking services.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2004, Eric Beall, Susan Gedutis Lindsay, Making Music Make Money, →ISBN:",
          "text": "Rather than casting around in the dark, you can now tailor-make something from scratch with someone who knows exactly what is needed — and even better, who now has a vested interest in using the material.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2007, Andrew Lynch, How to Make a Good Mind Great, →ISBN, page 212:",
          "text": "As we develop our skills at modelling, so we can adapt strategies to fit, tailor-make them for our personal preferences.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To customize or create specifically to meet the requirements of an individual."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "customize",
          "customize"
        ],
        [
          "create",
          "create"
        ],
        [
          "individual",
          "individual"
        ]
      ]
    },
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1997, Journal of Individual Employment Rights - Volume 6, page 105:",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2003, Tara Keeling, Awesome Mysteries Beyond Heaven's Gate, →ISBN, page 86:",
          "text": "In the tailor-making process, the tailor must take time to get all the exact measurements to ensure a proper fit.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, Sinead Murphy, The Art Kettle, →ISBN, page 54:",
          "text": "But what this has done is almost to define couture as anathema to dress, as if its contrast with the \"prêt-à-porter\" side of the fashion business is purchased with, not its \"tailor-making\" clothes that are fit to wear in a way those ready-to-wear never could be, but rather its making clothes that are not fit to wear at all!",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To make (clothes) by a tailor."
      ],
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          "tailor",
          "tailor"
        ]
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    }
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    {
      "word": "tailor make"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to customize or create specifically",
      "word": "maßschneidern"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "to customize or create specifically",
      "word": "customizar"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "to customize or create specifically",
      "word": "skräddarsy"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to make by a tailor",
      "word": "maßschneidern"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "to make by a tailor",
      "word": "skräddarsy"
    }
  ],
  "word": "tailor-make"
}