What is "minimise"

Usage examples of "minimise".

Created by computer to minimise employee error and maximise profit potential.

She was slim-hipped and narrow-wasted, with slender legs, and if she privately considered that her breasts were fuller than she would have liked she had grown adept at choosing clothes that minimised rather than maximised that fullness.

My ideal was to collect all the replies from the post office at one time to minimise the risk of being recognised, though this meant delaying my visit as long as possible.

Lockhart's Life of Napoleon (cover wanting, marginal annotations, minimising victories, aggrandising defeats of the protagonist).

Waterford had minimised the delay by conscious effort, and was out of the Daimler, the Parabellum levelling up at the windscreen of the Volvo Daf- it starred, and the face behind it fell away -ducking or dead, he did not care.

We should not speak of maximising happiness, but rather of minimising suffering.

The only risk would be when I collected the replies and this could be minimised by going first thing in the morning.

Waterford had minimised the delay by conscious effort, and was out of the Daimler, the Parabellum levelling up at the windscreen of the Volvo Daf it starred, and the face behind it fell away -ducking or dead, he did not care.

The real point is that the likelihood of dying in the way that people at Ibrox and Hillsborough died will be minimised if the clubs implement Lord Justice Taylor’s recommendations properly, and that, as far as I can see, is all that matters.