Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To increase or make as great as possible: "the ideal of maximizing opportunity through the equalizing of educational opportunity” ( Robert J. Havighurst).
- v. To assign the highest possible importance to.
- v. Mathematics To find the largest value of (a function).
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To make as great as possible; raise or increase to the highest degree. Also spelled maximise.
Wiktionary
- v. to make as large as possible
- v. computing, graphical user interface to expand (a window) to fill the main display area
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. To increase to the highest degree.
WordNet 3.0
- v. make as big or large as possible
- v. make the most of
Examples
“It's not going to work because "take the existing biz and maximize" is the job for a direct marketer, or an ad guy, not an architect.”
“The second answer is, I believe, if you look at how much money we're spending on health care, if we can redirect a lot of the money that would be saved from administrative costs and from insurance overcharges per person because of the system we have, if we could do more preventive and primary health care, if we can, in short, maximize the money we're now spending and keep people like you in big pools, I believe there would be enough money to cover your care.”
“A basic argument behind identifying happiness as the thing-to-maximize is that 1) everything that is good is good for someone and 2) the only things that are good for someone are that person’s experiences (although some utilitarians, like Richard, think that the thing-to-maximize is not happiness but something else, like desire-fulfillment).”
“Buyers of the calls maximize their profits if the stock jumps more than 20% to top $21 by the middle of next month, according to a report by Interactive Brokers.”
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“Time marches on, companies making money are always working a niche (sometimes a big monopolistic niche), and people doing well are always fighting to keep things the same (aka maximize their profit).”
“maximize" - or qualify for - more federal money to pay for what the state needs.”
“And at least Marvel explained it in real terms: it's a company, and it needs to "maximize" profits.”
“I always open my Finder windows from one of, like, 5 places so as long as I open them, "maximize" them, then close them, they'll always open filling the screen, which is preferred.”
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“In addition, the winner, if it is not the current contractor, should "maximize" the use of current guards giving at least 50 percent of them the right to stay on if they want.”
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“In a February memo, James M. Chaparro, ICE's head of enforcement and removal operations, called on field directors to "maximize" participation in the program, which he outlined as one of the ways to increase removals and "move us into position to meet or exceed the fiscal year goals.”
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