verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
reduce/minimize a risk
▪ This diet could reduce your risk of certain cancers.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
chance
▪ Clearly, at whichever spot minimizes your chance of being eaten.
▪ It minimizes the chance of excessive competition.
▪ Quinn went directly to Clinton with his thick petition, minimizing the chance that Justice would open a file.
cost
▪ Cash flows should be managed to optimize the return from cash received and to minimize the cost of finance.
▪ Are there actions you can take now to avoid or minimize the cost of this disease?
▪ The first is that it is hard to ensure that the industry really does minimize costs.
▪ Layoffs are minimized, and costs are reduced.
▪ However, through the application of good engineering we have minimized the potentially high cost increases.
▪ Ignoring returns, they concentrate only on minimizing costs.
▪ In order to minimize cost and keep things simple, the signal levels are non-standard.
▪ First, by minimizing conversion capital costs while backing out of expensive oil we conserve both capital and consumer resources.
costs
▪ The first is that it is hard to ensure that the industry really does minimize costs.
▪ Layoffs are minimized, and costs are reduced.
▪ Ignoring returns, they concentrate only on minimizing costs.
▪ First, by minimizing conversion capital costs while backing out of expensive oil we conserve both capital and consumer resources.
▪ They provide food products at lower cost than conventional supermarkets; they minimize operating costs and customer services.
▪ The organization that compulsively seeks to minimize the costs of its actions is for ever at odds with the reality of its performance.
▪ The overriding goal of state policy was to keep the elderly as independent as possible, so as to minimize costs.
▪ Self-defeating organizations are nothing if not adroit at minimizing the costs of their destructive or ineffectual actions.
damage
▪ Pipes are outside the buildings to minimize damage in case of an earthquake.
▪ In fact, our focus became just trying to make sure the kid understands all of this, to minimize the damage.
▪ It was a method designed to minimize damage.
effect
▪ Let us consider possible distortions and ways in which we can minimize their effect.
▪ A.. To minimize the effects of that destruction.
▪ And in the process we can help minimize the effect of compound loss in an elderly person's life.
▪ A thicker-skinned child would be affected by such behavior but be able to minimize the effects.
▪ The actual path taken by the orbiter is complex and designed to minimize the effect of air resistance on the craft.
▪ If I hit a bad shot, I try to minimize its effect.
▪ Subsequently, family friends and biographers have tried to minimize the effect.
▪ Risk is best allocated to the party who is best placed to minimize its effects.
impact
▪ It is a mistake to minimize the impact of the new cosmology, but resources were available to protect a spiritual destiny.
▪ At times I tried to minimize the impact of the move.
▪ It aims to minimize its impact and subsequently treat and cure it.
number
▪ Gene order was determined by minimizing the number of recombination events required to explain the allele distribution patterns.
▪ He did his best to dodge trouble and minimize the number of people who considered him an enemy.
▪ Since interviewing is costly try to minimize the number that you conduct.
▪ The aim is to maximise the number of solved problems while minimizing the number of conceptual problems and anomalies.
problem
▪ One obvious way to minimize this problem is to reduce the number of different data formats.
▪ Campaigning here Tuesday, Dole sought to minimize his problems.
▪ This use of data at two levels of analysis seeks to minimize the problem of ecological fallacy.
▪ The free-flowing water across the surface serves to dampen these sound waves and minimize the problem.
risk
▪ Systematic evaluation and forecasting can minimize risks but never eliminate them.
▪ Victims tend to minimize the risk they are experiencing.
▪ This caution obviously arises from the need to minimize the risk of long-term side-effects caused by seemingly innocent new substances.
▪ No criticism attaches to the effort of the modern corporation to minimize risk.
▪ Where possible, information on an issue was collected from several different respondents to minimize the risk of bias.
▪ It tormented him to think that something might happen in his absence, and he made every effort to minimize the risks.
▪ This organic staining method was chosen to minimize the risk of contamination by inorganic elements.
▪ A risk management program means all programs to minimize extraordinarily hazardous accident risks.
way
▪ One obvious way to minimize this problem is to reduce the number of different data formats.
▪ Thus care in indexing is essential and systems should be designed in such a way as to minimize the possibility of error.
▪ This intervention was seen as a way of minimizing the harmful and the more undesirable side-effects of commercially funded media.
■ VERB
design
▪ She was buxom, and the rust-red pullover she wore was not designed to minimize the fact.
▪ It was a method designed to minimize damage.
▪ The actual path taken by the orbiter is complex and designed to minimize the effect of air resistance on the craft.
▪ They may also be designed to minimize the pressure to disclose government documents.
seek
▪ This use of data at two levels of analysis seeks to minimize the problem of ecological fallacy.
▪ When a well-intentioned program yields unwelcome results, for example, a truth-aversive organization will seek to minimize or disguise these consquences.
▪ The organization that compulsively seeks to minimize the costs of its actions is for ever at odds with the reality of its performance.
▪ In effect Gingrich pleaded guilty to both offenses while seeking to minimize their importance.
▪ Campaigning here Tuesday, Dole sought to minimize his problems.
try
▪ They try to minimize electronics imports from each other and are often in direct competition in export markets.
▪ At times I tried to minimize the impact of the move.
▪ In fact the narrator's language is positively austere as he tries to minimize our sense of recapitulation.
▪ If I hit a bad shot, I try to minimize its effect.
▪ Subsequently, family friends and biographers have tried to minimize the effect.
▪ So you should try to minimize restrictions about diet and environment as much as possible.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ The city is working on plans to minimize traffic problems.
▪ White House officials sought to minimize the importance of the meeting.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Before you sell any mutual funds, minimize taxes by checking different ways of computing costs.
▪ By contrast, a recreational paddler in a remote gorge will want to maximize safety and minimize energy expenditure.
▪ He is meticulous in developing, implementing and maintaining systems which minimize inventory and maximize profit.
▪ Peers working together minimize the pain of some schoolwork, while promoting learning and cooperation for both.
▪ Pipes are outside the buildings to minimize damage in case of an earthquake.
▪ Some creasing is inevitable but it can be minimized by judicious stretching of the liner as the pool fills.
▪ The first is that it is hard to ensure that the industry really does minimize costs.
▪ To minimize risks, they would not be required to disarm the several militia groups responsible for recent massacres.