slim

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(especially of people) attractively thin:

slim hips/legs

She has a lovely slim figure.

very small:

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

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

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

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

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

She’s published several slim volumes of poetry.

Slim also means only a little or not much:

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

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.

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.

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.

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.