lean

Các nghĩa

1. mảnh khảnh

   Slim; not fleshy.

   They will now dedicate several hours at the gym every day to be leaner and stronger.

2. nạc, ít mỡ

   Having little fat.

   lean steak cuts

   The butcher and the porkman painted up only the leanest scrags of meat; the baker, the coarsest of meagre loaves.

3. ít ỏi, eo hẹp

   Having little extra or little to spare; scanty; meagre.

   a lean budget

   a lean harvest

4. loãng, nghèo

   Having a low proportion or concentration of a desired substance or ingredient.

   A lean ore hardly worth mining.

   Running on too lean a fuel-air mixture will cause, among other problems, your internal combustion engine to heat up too much.

5. tinh gọn

   Efficient, economic, frugal, agile, slimmed-down; pertaining to the modern industrial principles of "lean manufacturing".

   lean management

   lean manufacturing

   Alcoa is now a lean and agile enterprise, after having split last year into two entities.

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• leaner comparative
• leanest superlative

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