to maximize
- verb
- /ˈmæksɪmaɪz/
- The authors share specific techniques and tips to help a presenter maximize confidence and convey messages.
- maximize profits
- maximize earnings
- maximize time
You know, we minimize risk while we maximize activity.
- You know, we minimize risk while we maximize activity.
- The next step is to maximize your sleep hygiene.
- I'm trying to maximize the minimum value.
- They have got to, by law, maximize profits, which like, what?
- I think the engineers, but their job is to maximize click through, right?
- You can absolutely maximize your marketing skills.
- You're not trying to maximise a reward by choosing actions.
- The question that was asked was how do we maximize the use of our time?
- They're just going to maximize production and be efficient.
- However, we want to maximize the number of regions we get.
Examples
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All teachers and students are interested in maximizing efficiency in learning.
Academic text (2011) -
The company implemented new strategies to maximize profits this quarter.
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So I knew that I had to maximize the work day.
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You can absolutely maximize your marketing skills.
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We're going to maximize the sales.
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I think you have to maximize your positive features.
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Do each thing with one hundred percent attention and maximize your energy and time.
Fiction book (1992) -
The next step is to maximize your sleep hygiene.
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Training activities often run in parallel with both components to maximize their impact.
Academic text (2011) -
Positive social settings maximize the satisfaction of athletes' basic needs that consequently foster their well-being.
Academic text (2011)
Synonyms
Make something work as well as possible
To reach the highest possible level or amount
Reach the highest level or amount
Antonyms
How Large
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Maximize comes from the root maxim- meaning 'greatest', the same root as maximum, and the ending -ize meaning 'to make'. So to maximize something is to 'make it greatest' or use it as fully as possible.