tailor

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   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
   noun

   Bluefish (Pomatomus saltatrix).

   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.

3. 3
   verb

   To make, repair, or alter clothes.

   We can tailor that jacket for you if you like.

4. 4
   verb

   To make or adapt (something) for a specific need.

   The website was tailored to the client's needs.

5. 5
   verb

   To restrict (something) in order to meet a particular need.

   a narrowly tailored law

6. 6
   noun

   a person whose occupation is making and altering garments

7. 7
   verb

   adjust to a specific need or market

8. 8
   verb

   create (clothes) with cloth

Etymology

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. Compare typologically German Schneider (akin to English snithe); Macedonian кројач (krojač), Polish krawiec (akin to Proto-Slavic *krojiti).