tailor-made
/teɪləˈmeɪd
/adjective
1(Of clothes) made by a tailor for a particular customer: tailor-made suits...
- Last year I purchased 5 stylish tailor-made suits and all the pants have pleats.
- That's the beauty of a tailor-made suit; you won't need to have it altered several times before it fits perfectly.
- They'll add a touch of class to your new tailor-made suit, of course.
2Made, adapted, or suited for a particular purpose or person: he was tailor-made for the job...
- Future developments could also see new gene-based drugs being tailor-made to a person's individual DNA to make them more effective in combating disease.
- A programme of therapies is tailor-made for each child.
- Situated in the centre of the Barony of Erris, Belmullet lies between the bays of Broadhaven to the north, and Blacksod to the south and is tailor-made for such a festival.
noun
A garment that has been specially made for a particular customer: a lady in a red tailor-made...
- Spielberg was in shorts and Jurassic Park baseball cap as he chatted with Rupert Murdoch in a Savile Row tailor-made.
- Tailor-mades were always described as ideal for travelling.
Rhymes
- CEng
- Stationers' Company
- Stationers' Hall
- stationer's rule
- stationery
- Stationery Office
- stationette
- station finder
- station hack
- station hand
- station head
- station hospital
- station house
- station indicator
- Stationing Committee
- station-Jack
- station-keeping
- station line
- station man
- station manager
- stationmaster
- station meter
- station-mistress
- stationnaire
- Station of the Cross