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trim down

trim down verb: to lose weight.

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.

Forms of trim down

third-person singular presenttrims down
present participletrimming down
past participletrimmed down
pasttrimmed down

Questions about trim down

What does trim down mean?
Trim down means to lose weight.
What part of speech is trim down?
Trim down is a verb.
What is the past tense of trim down?
The past tense of trim down is trimmed down.

Words near trim down in the dictionary

  1. trilophosaurids
  2. trilophosaurs
  3. trilostane
  4. triluminar
  5. trim
  6. trim down
  7. trim down to size
  8. trim line
  9. trim lines
  10. trim one's sails
  11. trim parties

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