maximizing
Getting the most
Maximizing is getting the most out of something—the greatest value, benefit, or quantity possible.
You maximize profits, maximize efficiency, maximize your potential.
The word often appears in business and economics but applies broadly: She arranged the furniture to maximize natural light.
To maximize a computer window is to expand it to fill the screen.
Climbing or resizing
- expansionIncrease in scope
- compoundingElements merging progressively
- developmentProgress toward maturity
- flourishingProspering vigorously
thriving · prosperity · acceleration · advancement · progression · enrichment · cultivation · leveraging
Making more aerodynamic or efficient
- optimizationMaximizing efficiency or performance
- productivityOutput relative to input
- automationSelf-operating system design
- workflowSequential task progression
throughput · lean · benchmarking · just-in-time · kaizen · utilization · output · systematizing
Increasing force or level
- amplifyingIncreasing strength or intensity
- augmentingIncreasing by addition
- elevatingLifting to higher level
- enhancingIncreasing quality or value
intensifying · multiplying · accumulating · inflating · pushing · raising · heightening · surging
scaling
Climbing or resizing
- expansionIncrease in scope
- compoundingElements merging progressively
- developmentProgress toward maturity
flourishing · thriving · prosperity · acceleration · advancement · progression · enrichment · cultivation · leveraging · capitalizing
streamlining
Making more aerodynamic or efficient
- optimizationMaximizing efficiency or performance
- productivityOutput relative to input
- automationSelf-operating system design
workflow · throughput · lean · benchmarking · just-in-time · kaizen · utilization · output · systematizing
boosting
Increasing force or level
- amplifyingIncreasing strength or intensity
- augmentingIncreasing by addition
- elevatingLifting to higher level
enhancing · intensifying · multiplying · accumulating · inflating · pushing · raising · heightening · surging · spiking
optimizing
Improving to best effect
prime · ceiling · utmost · capacity · saturation · threshold · plateau · cap · limit · best-case
- drama therapypsychodrama, sociodrama, drama therapy, role play, role-playing
- math operationsaddition, adding, subtraction, subtracting, multiplication
- Decision-Makingchoice, poor judgment, sound judgment, informed decision, hasty decision
- decisionschoice, make a decision, choices, yes, no
- adjustingtuning, readjusting, calibrating, tweaking, modifying
- allocationallocation, resource planning, capital allocation, asset allocation, apportionment
maximizingminimizing
Reducing to smallest extent
minimising · minimize · minimise · reducing · decreasing
maximizingsatisficing
Accepting adequate over optimal
settling · accepting · compromising · making do · good enough
maximizingsatisficing
Accepting adequate over optimal
economizing · conserving · settling · rationing · moderating
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