Definitions
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- verb make to specifications
- verb create (clothes) with cloth
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Examples
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								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 Luke O'Neil 2011 
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								In 1925 the Maharaja of Kotah asked Rolls Royce to tailor-make a tiger-hunting car for him. The Tiger Car 2011 
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								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 Luke O'Neil 2011 
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								The ice is hand-cut, and staff are happy to tailor-make drinks for the undecided. 
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								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 John Shore 2010 
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								Linking also helps our readers to tailor-make their internet reading adventure, sorta like those 1990s choose-your-own adventure books that I loved. 
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								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. 
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								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. 
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								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. 
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								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. 
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