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词汇 lean-and-mean
释义 lean and mean
adjective
(alsolean-and-mean)ukus
using only what is necessary, and determined to work effectively in order to compete successfully:
Companies that have survived the crisis are going to be lean and mean.
The company is driven by technological advances and a lean-and-mean mentality.

Examples of lean and mean


lean and mean
It is simply not true that the agenda of business is all about cutting taxes and being leanandmean in the public sector.
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I was more expecting, and hoping for, the "leanandmean authority" that at one time seemed in prospect.
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The commitment was for a leanandmean authority to deal with the strategic needs.
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A staff of 22 is pretty leanandmean.
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We have to ensure that the venture capital trusts are sufficiently leanandmean to afford small investments as well as large ones.
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It is nonsense to abolish the tier in which bureaucracy has been slimmed down—the tier that has been made leanandmean—and preserve organisations in which bureaucracy continues to flourish.
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