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Tailored To: Standard Pattern

Tailored To: Standard Pattern records a directly documented English construction and keeps guidance bounded to the evidenced pattern rather than turning one attested complement into a universal prohibition.

Quick answer

Use “tailored to” when something is made or adapted to suit a particular person, group, purpose, need, or requirement.

Key details

Confusion Familyusage-construction
Rule Familyadjective or complement construction
Termstailored to

Further guidance

Construction

Use “tailored to” when something is made or adapted to suit a particular person, group, purpose, need, or requirement.

Style Boundary

Oxford also documents “tailored for”; this page owns the “to” construction without claiming that “for” is generally wrong.

Sources and evidence

Sources are shown with the role they play in this guide. Historical or style-sensitive claims are kept within the evidence boundary described above.

  1. Tailor — Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary (opens in a new tab)Oxford University Press · Direct dictionary syntax evidence for “tailor something to/for somebody/something”

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