Definition of "tailor" []

• One that makes, repairs, and alters garments such as suits, coats, and dresses. (noun)
• To make (a garment), especially to specific requirements or measurements. (verb-transitive)
• To fit or provide (a person) with clothes made to that person's measurements. (verb-transitive)
• To make, alter, or adapt for a particular end or purpose: a speech that was tailored to an audience of business leaders. (verb-transitive)
• To pursue the trade of a tailor. (verb-intransitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "The term tailor is locally employed for a bungler, a botcher, or a clumsy fellow, and these meanings have been suggested in the passage quoted."
• "I met the man born Bernard Schwartz, the son of a tailor from the Bronx who went on to be one of Hollywood's biggest stars ever, only once."
• "I met the man born Bernard Schwartz, the son of a tailor from the Bronx who went on to be one of Hollywood"