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had it down

had it down is the simple past and past participle of trim down.

Meaning of trim down

Verb

trim down (third-person singular simple present trims down, present participle trimming down, simple past and past participle trimmed down)

  1. (intransitive) To lose weight.
    • I'm hoping to trim down this year.
  2. (venture capital, venture management) To deliberately shed operational inefficiencies, including the elimination of non-essential projects and the reduction of headcount or other overhead in order to focus resources exclusively on a startup's most profitable growth engines.
    • The decision has been made to trim down by laying off all unessential personnel, and investing the resulting savings into automated systems and software, so that we can scale the business more efficiently in the short run, prior to the upcoming IPO.

Questions about had it down

What is had it down the simple past and past participle of?
Had it down is the simple past and past participle of trim down.

Words near had it down in the dictionary

  1. had it all
  2. had it away
  3. had it bad
  4. had it both ways
  5. had it coming
  6. had it down
  7. had it easy
  8. had it going on
  9. had it in for
  10. had it in one
  11. had it off

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Adapted from Wiktionary: had it down (page history and authors); trim down (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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