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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
maximise

chiefly British English spelling of maximize. For suffix, see -ize. Related: Maximised; maximising.

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maximise

vb. (alternative spelling of maximize English)

WordNet
maximise
  1. v. make the most of; "He maximized his role" [syn: maximize]

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

Usage examples of "maximise".

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

Surely somebody less contemptuous should have won, a true believer who slavishly worked out the odds of various numerical formulations in order to maximise winning potential, someone who paid visits to the ticket dispenser with the regularity of a devout churchgoer?

If its parks were not protected, they too would now be built upon, and out to the very edge of the street, in order to maximise office space.

Boats whose owners would make as many voyages as they could to maximise their profits, and which could carry perishable goods a great distance.

This was a humiliation bout, a game where the suffering was to be maximised for the benefit of the audience.

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.

Gavin had consequently been panicked into rechannelling much of the marketing budget into a summer advertising and PR offensive, pitching the facility's year-round sun credentials in an attempt to maximise winter bookings and thus at least get the ball rolling.

Blue is also used for prosperity rituals where this involves advancement or for maximising opportunities, for promotion and expansion of business.

Mr Moriya fretted that she wasn't maximising her potential, which she took to mean making all the money she could, but then she scarcely knew what to do with what she did have.

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

As they did, new design concepts were enacted, bringing the old Mosdva dictum of sustainability to the fore, enabling them to maximise their use of dwindling mass resources.