If you tailor something such as a plan or system to someone's needs, you make it suitable for a particular person or purpose by changing the details of it. We can tailor the program to the patient's needs. someone whose job is to make men's clothes, that are measured to fit each customer perfectly dressmaker (tailleur, from taillier , from taliare, from talea ). to make something so that it is exactly right for someone's particular needs or for a particular purpose tailor sth to sth