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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
maximize
verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
maximize profits (=make them as big as possible)
▪ Every firm tries to maximize its profits.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
benefit
▪ By applying this principle total world output will be maximized and benefits will accrue to all parties.
▪ It can instead devote its time, money, and energy to maximizing the benefits it has realized.
▪ How, then, can a poor country maximize its benefits from such projects?
chance
▪ Thinking constantly in terms of end-results maximizes the chance of achieving them.
▪ It maximized my chances for making solid contact by starting with the tough ones and ending with the one-two.
▪ Keeping wives in work will therefore maximize the chances of their husbands hearing about possible job openings.
▪ What she did, however, was to maximize her chances of responding positively.
▪ How do they maximize their chances of career development?
▪ From the outset, Taylor maximized his chances of assembling a Great Group by looking for people who could work collaboratively.
opportunity
▪ Our presence is not intended to be flashy and we want to minimize our risks while maximizing our opportunities.
utility
▪ This, presumably one could say, maximizes their utility.
▪ The wage is set by the union executive to maximize the expected utility of the median voter.
▪ Consumers maximize utility subject to possible quantity constraints.
value
▪ The result is that they are bought up by development companies, insurance companies and pension funds looking to maximize their value.
▪ Following this rule will result in choosing the investment that will maximize the value added to the firm.
▪ Such a policy will maximize the value of the firm.
▪ In general, every household and every firm are motivated to maximize the value associated with the resources and goods they control.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Diamonds are cut to maximize the stone's beauty.
▪ The bank's function is to maximize profits, and that requires some risk-taking.
▪ We need to look at how to maximize our cash flow.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Both, however, exist to maximize the inclusive fitness of breeding in their exponents.
▪ Carr and the Celtics have done a decent job the past 48 hours, maximizing the suspense surrounding their new lineup.
▪ Following this rule will result in choosing the investment that will maximize the value added to the firm.
▪ Strategies that maximize the individual fitness component may be termed selfish.
▪ The aim of everyone, irrespective of weight, should be to modify their eating very slightly to maximize health benefits.
▪ The idea that maximizing personal consumption is central to individual welfare is less than two hundred years old.
▪ The result is that they are bought up by development companies, insurance companies and pension funds looking to maximize their value.
▪ The state / firm attempts to use productive resources optimally to maximize the supply of appropriate goods available for consumers.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Maximize

Maximize \Max"i*mize\, v. t. [L. maximus greatest.] To increase to the highest degree.
--Bentham.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
maximize

1802, formed in English from maximum + -ize; first attested in Bentham, who used it often. Related: Maximized; maximizing.

Wiktionary
maximize

alt. 1 to make as large as possible 2 (context computing graphical user interface English) to expand (a window) to fill the main display area vb. 1 to make as large as possible 2 (context computing graphical user interface English) to expand (a window) to fill the main display area

WordNet
maximize

  1. v. make as big or large as possible; "Maximize your profits!" [syn: maximise] [ant: minimize, minimize]

  2. make the most of; "He maximized his role" [syn: maximise]

Usage examples of "maximize".

The objectives are to install IPS and to maximize BICO on an on-going basis, not just a per-meeting basis, achieved via democracy by informed ballot.

The cucurbits then had the sun to maximize early growth, when in usual habit the cucurbit normally started its natural cycle of growth well after the grass.

As the pleasurable orgasmic contractions propel semen through the urethra, he will retain his tight grip on the shaft and continue massaging the frenulum and glans, maximizing the pleasure and stroking through the orgasm and its first expulsion of ejaculate.

Harry briefly allowed his autopilot to try on its own to maximize the efficiency of the pursuit.

It is hoped to construct a rectal modulus of Reagan and the auto-disaster of maximized audience arousal.

And incorporated into the Overstructure were abstractions of microscopic cellular structure created by the Arthropods, who are believers in maximizing harmony with nature.

If the Montegeau stones were recut to maximize brilliance, it would increase their value by half, at least.

We are fresh and free and strong and joyfully bend our shoulders to the great work out of common cause, with the aim of building a bright future in which all humans will be free to maximize their potential, free of the shadow of the antihuman Eschaton, and free of the chains of superstitious unscientific thinking.

As the pleasurable orgasmic contractions propel semen through the urethra, he will retain his tight grip on the shaft and continue massaging the frenulum and glans, maximizing the pleasure and stroking through the orgasm and its first expulsion of ejaculate.

It had moldedto their bodies, adjusted to their thermal patterns, and given back precise waves of heat and vibration, the exact levels of firmness and fluidity necessary to maximize pleasure.

Like mammoths, the oestrus cycle of these mastodonts was timed so that the calves would be born in early spring, maximizing the time available for them to feed and grow strong before the calves faced the rigors of their first winter.

And if you are drek-headed enough to pick an elevator, why not maximize the effect by geeking everyone there, hmm?

Not a monoculture: these were old plantations, interplanted with secondary and tertiary crops in a careful balance to maximize both production and resilience.

Weaver designed his offenses to maximize the chances of a three-run homer.

In the meantime, they would like to see the sanctions liberalized if not lifted altogether, to maximize their profits from Iraqi trade.