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tailor-made

adjectiveB2neutral

Tailor-made means cut to fit one particular person. A tailor-made suit.

It is used of anything shaped to one case, from a holiday to a legal argument. A tailor-made jacket is measured on the body rather than chosen from a rail.

Geoff Charles · CC0

Definitions of tailor-made

  1. 1adjectivetailor-madeCut to fit one particular person.B2

    “The role was tailor-made for her and everybody knew it.”

tailor-made is a quality.

Where it comes from

tailor-make Back formation from tailor-made.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practised in Clothes & Fashion

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