I. noun
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He had been stripped and measured, and two tailors were now working on the clothes.
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His father was a tailor in Como, and young Antonio made his first fabric design at age 12.
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Kirov the tailor put a last quick tuck in position and stepped back to appraise his workmanship.
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The force's tailor in Brussels is refusing to provide uniforms until his bill is settled.
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They became weavers, or tailors, or wool merchants.
II. verb
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need
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Instruction Instruction is informal and tailored to individual needs .
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Some people want selling tailored to their needs and wants.
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The addition of the care plan will enable service agreements to be tailored to meet the needs of the individual user.
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He was a gunsmith who turned to tailoring after the declining need for full-time gunmakers made the craft unprofitable.
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In other words the indexing system must be tailored to the needs of the users of the index.
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Instruction Coaching is informal and tailored to individual needs , though novice instruction may be interrupted occasionally by stronger winds.
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The result: a whole range of new alloys, tailored to meet new needs .
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It can be tailored specifically to the needs of the child and parents and its design can vary widely.
requirement
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It should be tailored to the specific requirements of each engagement.
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Arrangements can be tailored to meet individual requirements .
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Central units did not commonly tailor courses to library requirements , although this is not necessarily a disadvantage.
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Both services can be tailored to customer requirements , according to the company.
system
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This offering will enable customers to extend and tailor their systems to meet unique requirements.
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This stage of the manufacturing process involved tailoring complex systems to customer specifications, testing, order consolidation and shipping.
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Aware that women outnumber men on voter lists, politicians from both parties are tailoring their campaigns accordingly.
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Children tend to tailor their behaviour to the particular places in which, and different persons with whom, they find themselves.
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It does not generally support dragging-and-dropping files on to other applications nor can its drag-and-drop be tailored.
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Some are comprehensive and cover short-term exports on a continuous basis, others are tailored for specific contracts.
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The length of your step should be tailored according to the distance you are away from your opponent.
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There will be times when you may want to tailor your style of play to fight particular opponents.
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They employ several drugs, each tailored to disrupt the virus at different stages in its replication process.
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This questioning procedure allows the salesperson to tailor the speed and content of his presentation to the circumstances which face him.