Definitions
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- verb Present participle of
maximise .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective making as great as possible
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Examples
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Ontario has no option but to be actively involved in maximising Canada-U.S. trade.
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But if you’re interesting in maximising your audience or audience participation, it’s always useful to understand what content really strikes a chord with your readers.
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Bethan, I do't want to be too negative about the aim of this proposal - because I support the idea of maximising opportunity to develop IT skills.
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Washington DC: "What happens, now that democracy and the free market have fused into a single predatory organism with a thin constricted imagination that revolves almost entirely around the idea of maximising profit," asked author Arundhati Roy at a discussion with Noam Chomsky, professor of Linguistics and Philosophy, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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Washington DC: "What happens, now that democracy and the free market have fused into a single predatory organism with a thin constricted imagination that revolves almost entirely around the idea of maximising profit," asked author Arundhati Roy at a discussion with Noam Chomsky, professor of Linguistics and Philosophy, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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What happens now that democracy and the Free Market have fused into a single predatory organism with a thin, constricted imagination that revolves almost entirely around the idea of maximising profit?
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The Chief Constable is wedded to the idea of maximising his resources where opportunities exist.
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The Chief Constable is wedded to the idea of maximising his resources where opportunities exist.
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He argued that these situations, where decision making rules such as maximising expected utility can be applied, differ in a deep way from those where the probability distribution of a random outcome is unknown.
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The decision by United Utilities follows the company's earlier actions to maintain essential supplies, such as maximising water abstraction from ground water supplies and moving water around its regional pipe network.
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