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leaner::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | throw |
| Derivation | lean |
Examples of leaner
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Leaner stockrooms mean less incentive to slash prices to get goods out the door.
From the forbes.com
When sifting through the meat group, you won't find a leaner choice than turkey.
From the freep.com
Ways to make the aviation industry leaner and greener were also on show in 2009.
From the newscientist.com
That's not exactly what a leaner and more eco-conscious Detroit expects to hear.
From the newsweek.com
Just as important, GM is trying to cut production and keep its inventory leaner.
From the latimes.com
In her opening 45 minutes, lang fared a bit better with her leaner 4-piece band.
From the orlandosentinel.com
Physicians as a group are leaner, fitter and live longer than average Americans.
From the online.wsj.com
The company will have far less debt, fewer brands, and a leaner management team.
From the businessweek.com
Everyone is trying to get leaner and meaner, and monitoring is one way to do it.
From the tennessean.com
- Thin: lacking excess flesh; "you can't be too rich or too thin"; "Yon Cassius has a lean and hungry look"-Shakespeare
- Tilt: the property possessed by a line or surface that departs from the vertical; "the tower had a pronounced tilt"; "the ship developed a list to starboard"; "he walked with a heavy inclination to the right"
- To incline or bend from a vertical position; "She leaned over the banister"
- Cause to lean or incline; "He leaned his rifle against the wall"
- Lacking in mineral content or combustible material; "lean ore"; "lean fuel"
- Containing little excess; "a lean budget"; "a skimpy allowance"
- The use of wine tasting descriptors allow the taster an opportunity to put into words the aromas and flavors that they experience and can be used in assessing the overall quality of wine. ...
- To hang outwards; To press against; slim; not fleshy; having little fat; Having little extra or little to spare; Of a fuel-air mixture, having more air than is necessary to burn all of the fuel; more air- or oxygen- rich than necessary for a stoichiometric reaction
- Leanness means designing the system so that it has no extra parts (Wirth 1995, McConnell 1997). Voltaire said that a book is finished not when nothing more can be added but when nothing more can be taken away. ...
