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minimize Verb

— If you minimize something, you make it as small as possible. We should take all steps to minimize the risk of disease. We are trying to minimize pollution by using bikes instead of our car. These steps will help us to minimize the time and cost of transporting materials.

minimize

— verb (= minimise) make small or insignificant Let's minimize the risk — verb (= understate) represent as less significant or important — verb (= belittle) cause to seem less serious; play down Don't belittle his influence

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minimise reduce belittle understate make small diminish derogate lessen downplay undervalue underestimate play down disparage denigrate bring down underrate underemphasize tap off talk down straiten stint shrink shorten scotch scant restrict remove pick at misjudge minimumvalue minimum value minimum minimization minimalization minimal value mince lower localize localise limit flip off extreme value dwarf downsize dismiss discount devalue depredate depreciate deprecate

Topics minimize topics

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Conjugation minimize conjugation

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minimize · verb

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Simple sentences

Is there anything we can do to minimize the risk?

Movie subtitles

As if the poisoner was attempting to minimize the dog's suffering.
I never minimize at a time like this.
I don't frighten, but I don't minimize.
Naturally, that means taking risks, but our intention is always to minimize those risks.
In a word, to minimize unknown quantities.
And, men, no matter what you do don't minimize your importance on the Bedford.
And our job as administrators. is to minimize the inconvenience which this is going to cause.
That's our only job, Rich, to minimize the inconvenience of things.
We must take every step to minimize the possible harm.
I'm asking you to put the experiment off till we understand it more to minimize the risk.
I'll minimize the vigilante stuff with the press, say it's creeps killing creeps.
I want to minimize the chance of any incident.
All we can do now is minimize it.
On the other hand, he's very anxious to minimize publicity.
By degrees you minimize your ugliness, your lameness. and you begin to think of yourself. as a presentable young man with a slight limp.
If I try to stop it or even minimize it with an antidote, I might kill him.
Time to make your fortunes and minimize your losses.
It's not very perceptive of you to minimize the courage that it takes to kill.
I won't try to minimize it.
I'm asking you to put the experiment off until we understand a little more, in order to minimize the risk.
But you try to minimize that stuff. and be the best person you can be.
Mr. Shane, I don't mean to minimize your concern. but this is just a rather obvious mistake, isn't it?
This time around, I intend to minimize my losses.
You see the strategy lies in making bets that minimize the house's edge.
If we lay out our probable cause, stress exigent circumstances, minimize our monitoring to relevant conversations, it might fly.
In order to minimize the turbulence, we will have to arrest the heart.
My dear. I'm sure noone wishes to minimize the seriousness of what happened.
To minimize the danger to the crew, do not inject yourselves until just before you leave the submarine.
We control a lot of money with little. Minimize taxes. With no government control.
Please minimize the damage.
We could minimize seismic activity by creating isobaric fissures and relieving some of the tectonic stress but that would just be a temporary fix.
That should minimize the seismic stress that we'll generate while we're drilling.
It'll minimize the distortion.
It'll minimize our power signature.
Mr. Stevens, recalibrate the structural integrity field to minimize the strain caused by the torpedo.

News and current affairs

The first is obvious: minimize global warming by, say, honoring the Kyoto Treaty's emissions targets.
In order to maintain absolutist power and to minimize public anger, the Saudi princes, led by Prince Naif, asked the reformers to sign an agreement that they would never again ask for reform.
Fortunately, it may be possible to minimize the fallout for the rest of the world.
At the very least, we can minimize those dangers.
The goal would not be to rescue banks and their creditors, but to minimize the disruption that an uncontrolled default might cause.
Moreover, large corporations are able to take full advantage of globalization (for example, by arbitraging tax regimes to minimize their payments).
The world's task is to find instruments that can minimize the possibility of moral hazard and yet keep the level of real risk within tolerable bounds.
Wouldn't the rest of us rather minimize than maximize the time we might be faced with the problem of containing a Hindu Nationalist India, a Wilhelmine China, or a Weimar Russia?
Thus, they would minimize the deterioration in their trade surpluses, maintain competitive exchange rates, and safeguard their foreign reserves and net-creditor positions.
But its benefits will not be fully realized unless governments take steps to empower the forces of change, ensure that the massive positive externalities are internalized, and minimize the negative impacts.
Investors need to be reassured that debt-service costs are under control, and that debt volumes and deficit limits are firmly monitored in order to minimize default risks and strengthen banks' ability to lay the groundwork for sustainable growth.
But we can minimize risk by remaining vigilant and upholding at all times the values on which our societies are based.
EU member governments obviously want to minimize the risk of being called on to save a cross-border bank in trouble.
The main item on the agenda now is to design better social insurance, in order to minimize the pain from reallocation, be it from deregulation, technological progress, or globalization.
National supervisors always tend to minimize problems at home.
The Russians view normal relations between Turkey and Armenia as a way to minimize Georgia's strategic role in the region.
Second, it is also clear that developed countries must act rapidly and in concert to minimize the impact of the crisis on emerging markets.
To minimize the risk of an unruly collapse, it is necessary to approve an international resolution mechanism with authority over all major international financial institutions.
Moreover, they have called for a complete rethinking of deterrence strategy, in order to minimize, and ultimately eliminate, reliance on the most indiscriminately destructive weapons ever invented.
And, unlike in the West, China's targeted equity-specific actions minimize the risk of financial contagion caused by liquidity spillovers into other asset markets.
At the same time, the involvement of a rule-bound international agency would minimize the political poison associated with bank recapitalizations and currency interventions.
The message emanating now from the US is not one of non-interventionism, but a strategy of restraint that assumes that there are limits to American power and seeks to minimize the risk of entanglement in foreign conflicts.
Rather than agree on a fair division of costs, whether of the financial crisis or of welcoming refugees, governments try to minimize their obligations and shift them onto others - thereby increasing the collective costs.

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