They can also store food for themselves, and have enough money to buy food if they need to during the lean season.

VOA: special.2009.11.17

Then they have to pay high prices to buy food for themselves during the "lean season,"

VOA: special.2009.11.17

Ryan's skin is weathered. He's got creases in his neck and his canvas work pants seem to hang on his lean frame.

VOA: standard.2010.07.20

I'm going to lean up against you. You lean up against me.

VOA: standard.other

we're going to lean on each other.' And that's what we've done here the last four years and this is the culmination of all that belief and that faith."

VOA: standard.2010.02.08

But it's got to be one that's realistically designed to weather this storm and to emerge at the other end much more lean,mean and competitive than it currently is."

VOA: standard.2009.03.30

"I saw all these ships waiting out there,I am guessing, waiting their turns to load and unload the cargo, so,I said,Why do the ships come into the harbor?" Why not have the harbor go out there and bring the goods in?'" Researchers describe the mobile harbor as a lean, light system for unloading container ships even if the coastal area is too shallow for them to dock.

VOA: standard.2010.01.04