slim down
phrasal verbslim down
- to become thinner, for example as a result of eating less
- She slimmed down to 60 kilos before her wedding.
slim down | slim something down
- to make a company or an organization smaller, by reducing the number of jobs in it; to be made smaller in this way
- They're restructuring and slimming down the workforce.
- The industry may have to slim down even further.
- the new, slimmed-down company