MAXIMIZE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does maximize mean? 

• MAXIMIZE (verb)
  The verb MAXIMIZE has 2 senses:

1. make as big or large as possible

2. make the most of

  Familiarity information: MAXIMIZE used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MAXIMIZE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they maximize    ... he / she / it maximizes   
Past simple: maximized   
Past participle: maximized   
-ing form: maximizing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Make as big or large as possible

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

maximise; maximize

Context example:

Maximize your profits!

Hypernyms (to "maximize" is one way to...):

increase (make bigger or more)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Antonym:

minimize (make small or insignificant)

Derivation:

maximization (the act of raising to the highest possible point or condition or position)

maximum (the greatest possible degree)

maximum (the largest possible quantity)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Make the most of

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

maximise; maximize

Context example:

He maximized his role

Hypernyms (to "maximize" is one way to...):

exploit; tap (draw from; make good use of)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

maximum (the greatest possible degree)

maximum (the largest possible quantity)

 Context examples 

Researchers showed that nitric oxide may help commonly used heart drugs maximize their benefits while improving heart function.

(Heart Disease Severity May Depend on Nitric Oxide Levels, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

A health/illness/pain management principle specifically directed at the management of pharmacologic agents in maximizing beneficial outcomes and minimizing unfavorable effects.

(Pharmacologic Management, NCI Thesaurus)

This is a totally novel pain relief mechanism, based on maximizing the analgesic potential of the immune system cells, and which could have important therapeutic applications in patients with pain of inflammatory origin.

(Scientists make white blood cells to alleviate pain, instead of producing it, during tissue inflammation, University of Granada)

Nursing care provided for children and adults with developmental disabilities in the homes, schools, and communities to maximize their ability to interact and function in the community at large.

(Developmental Disabilities Nursing, NCI Thesaurus)

An individual qualified to perform an evaluation who is masked from a subject's data in order to minimize bias or maximize consistency and quality.

(Independent Rater, NCI Thesaurus)

For example, people who are mindful to maximize their calcium intake may be more likely to also eat a healthy diet, exercise and take prescribed medications – all of which could also lower AMD risk.

(No evidence that calcium increases risk of age-related macular degeneration, National Institutes of Health)

Medical sociology is concerned with individual and group responses aimed at assessing well-being, maintaining health, acting upon real or perceived illness, interacting with health care systems, and maximizing health in the face of physiologic or functional derangement.

(Medical Sociology, NCI Thesaurus)