0 (especially of people) attractively thin:
1 very small:
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:
5 small or slight, especially in a way that makes success difficult:
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:
8 to reduce the number of people who work in a company or organization, often so that it operates more effectively:
She was slim, svelte and sophisticated.
She was much slimmer than I remembered her.
He looks a lot slimmer now he's exercising.
The solution is a familiar one and it entails slimming down procedures and simplifying them to some extent.
I am in the process of slimming down membership by about one-third, and the chairman has reorganised the committee structure.
We are a fat beast which needs slimming down.
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