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tailor

/ˈteɪlɚ/ verb C1
  1. To make, repair, or alter clothes. · We can tailor that jacket for you if you like.
  2. To make or adapt (something) for a specific need. (figuratively, transitive) · The website was tailored to the client's needs.
  3. To restrict (something) in order to meet a particular need. (figuratively, transitive) · a narrowly tailored law

He/she/it tailors · Past tailored · Past participle tailored · -ing form tailoring

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Verb forms

Base form
tailor
He/she/it
tailors
Past
tailored
Past participle
tailored
-ing form
tailoring

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private secretary to a minister, plunged at once into European cabals and Parisian intrigues; having kings, and, better still, queens, to protect, parties to unite, elections to direct; making more use of your cabinet with your pen and your telegraph than Napoleon did of his battle-fields with his sword and his victories; possessing five-and-twenty thousand francs a year, besides your place; a horse, for which Château-Renaud offered you four hundred louis, and which you would not part with; a tailor who never disappoints you; with the opera, the jockey-club, and other diversions, can you not amuse yourself?
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 430 · C1
I even distinguished that one of them was marked with the name of ‘Hyams,’ who was Oldacre's tailor.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes, p. 51 · C1
The tailor’s tab is on the neck—‘Neal, Outfitter, Vermissa, U.S.A.’ I have spent an instructive afternoon in the rector’s library, and have enlarged my knowledge by adding the fact that Vermissa is a flourishing little town at the head of one of the best known coal and iron valleys in the United States.
The Valley of Fear, p. 90 · C1
Singer and tailor am I-- Doubled the joys that I know-- Proud of my lilt to the sky, Proud of the house that I sew-- Over and under, so weave I my music--so weave I the house that I sew.
The Jungle Book, p. 85 · B2

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