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Tailor vs Fitter - What's the difference?

tailor | fitter |

As nouns the difference between tailor and fitter

is that tailor is a person who makes, repairs, or alters clothes professionally, especially suits and men's clothing while fitter is a person who fits or assembles something.

As a verb tailor

is to make, repair, or alter clothes.

As an adjective fitter is

comparative form of fit.

tailor

English

(wikipedia tailor)

Alternative forms

* tailour (obsolete)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A person who makes, repairs, or alters clothes professionally, especially suits and men's clothing.
  • (Australia) The fish .

    • Derived terms

    * tailorbird * tailoress * tailor-fashion * tailor-made * tailor's chalk * tailor's dummy

    Synonyms

    * (fish ) bluefish

    Related terms

    * dressmaker * seamster

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To make, repair, or alter clothes.
  • To make or adapt (something) for a specific need.
  • To restrict (something) in order to meet a particular need
    • .

    References

    * Australian Fish and How to Catch Them , Richard Allan, Landsdowne Publishing, 1990, ISBN 1-86302-674-6.

    fitter

    English

    Adjective

    (head)
  • comparative form of fit
    • An exercise bike won't make you fitter if you never find time to use it.
    My bird's loads fitter than yours.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • a person who fits or assembles something
    • a fitter of clothing, or of machinery
  • (informal) an epileptic
  • (UK, dated) A coal broker who conducts the sales between the owner of a coal pit and the shipper.
    • (Simmonds)

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