Meaning of slim In English

• 0 (especially of people) attractively thin:

  • slim hips/legs

  • She has a lovely slim figure.

• 1 very small:

  • They only have a slim chance of winning (= it's unlikely that they will win).

• 2 to try to get thinner by eating less food and doing more exercise:

  • You don't have much lunch - are you slimming?

• 3 East African for AIDS (= a serious disease that destroys the body's ability to fight infection)

• 4 thin, or (esp. of people) attractively thin:

  • She’s published several slim volumes of poetry.

  • Coaches told him his chances of making the team were slim at best.

• 5 small or slight, especially in a way that makes success difficult:

  • The trend was upwards, but the gains were slim.

  • The polls show Brackett leading by a slim 51% to her opponent's 49%.

  • The pizza delivery chain operates on a philosophy of slim margins and huge volume.

• 6 a slim chance or possibility is not likely to happen or be true:

  • The likelihood of selling the machinery at that price is slim.

  • a slim chance/possibility A member of the board said there was only a slim chance of the merger succeeding.

  • There is still a slim hope of the negotiations ending well for union members.

• 7 a slim company or organization is one that has been made smaller, and often more effective, by reducing the number of employees it has:

  • The result of the changes is a slimmer organization that is better able to respond to its customers.

• 8 to reduce the number of people who work in a company or organization, often so that it operates more effectively:

  • Margins are to be widened and central expenses slimmed down.

  • The government developed a public works program as one way of slimming the 12% jobless rate.

  • slim (down) to sth Having slimmed down to around 1400 staff, the company is now recruiting again.