maximize

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It invites shareholders to streamline and profit-maximize, even at the expense of loyal workers.

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  1. transitive verb To increase or make as great as possible: "the ideal of maximizing opportunity through the equalizing of educational opportunity” (Robert J. Havighurst).
  2. transitive verb To assign the highest possible importance to.
  3. transitive verb Mathematics To find the largest value of (a function).

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  • How can I improve, maximize, and use both visual attention and auditory attention? —  Serendip's Exchange -
  • Windows support normal, maximize, and minimize states. —  nextwebgen.com
  • NEW YORK -- (BUSINESS WIRE) -- FreeWheel (www. freewheel.tv), whose Monetization Rights Management platform enables content owners and distributors to maximize, optimize and sell their advertising inventory, and Attributor -
  • When you maximize, you spend excess time and energy on a decision that ultimately has zero effect on your happiness in the long run. —  The Huntington News RSS
  • You're trying to maximize or optimize or minimize something. —  Fast Company
 

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  1. from Latin maximus, greatest (see maximum), + -ize.
 

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/ˈmæksɪmaɪz/
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