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tailor-make

VERB
  1. create (clothes) with cloth
    Can the seamstress sew me a suit by next week?
  2. make to specifications
    I had this desk custom-made for me

How To Use tailor-make In A Sentence

  • Linking also helps our readers to tailor-make their internet reading adventure, sorta like those 1990s choose-your-own adventure books that I loved. How to link unto others « Digital immigrant
  • What makes a manager's job so extraordinarily difficult is that, in order to motivate and keep productive any given staff member, he or she has to tailor-make everything they do with and for that person in such a way that it perfectly fits that person's entirely unique emotional, psychological, and intellectual needs. John Shore: 10 Mistakes Even Good Managers Make
  • This is the great error made variously in the history of the faith, mostly recently in the 1960s and 1970s in the U.S. when Catholics attempted to tailor-make their liturgy to blend in with a slice of time in order to win the hearts of a certain age demographic that temporarily believed its wishes were more important than anything else. Demographics and Sacred Music
  • If even that fails to accommodate you, the company will tailor-make one.
  • Mr. BACHARACH: Well, she was like our star vehicle, you know, and we had been recording Dionne and producing her, kind of trying to tailor-make songs that would fit her. Burt Bacharach And Hal David: A 50-Year Musical Duet
  • More and more manufacturers are offering to tailor-make a turnkey system from their own components.
  • The ice is hand-cut, and staff are happy to tailor-make drinks for the undecided. 10 of the best cocktail bars in Berlin
  • Think traditional family fun, such as rock-pooling, cream teas and boogie boarding or, for the more adventurous, surfing and coasteering (schools pepper the coast), or country pursuits such as stalking and shooting (Park Farmhouse, 20 minutes north of Newquay, tailor-makes excellent days out for novices up to keen shots). Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph
  • In the end, they're using it to tailor-make a just-for-you Web experience that you're supposed to like—whether you like it or not. Not Me Dot Com
  • BA Holidays (0844 493 0758; www. ba.com) can tailor-make stays in New York at a wide variety of hotels, with BA flights included. Telegraph.co.uk: news business sport the Daily Telegraph newspaper Sunday Telegraph
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