MEANING
Make an amount, effect, or benefit as large as feasible or intended.
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Words that belong together
- maximize efficiency
- maximize access
On the page
The design maximized access without enlarging the building.
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Word forms
- Base
- maximize
- Past tense
- maximized
- Past participle
- maximized
- Present participle
- maximizing
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- maximize
- Present continuous
- am/is/are maximizing
- Present perfect
- have/has maximized
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been maximizing
- Past
- maximized
- Past continuous
- was/were maximizing
- Past perfect
- had maximized
- Past perfect continuous
- had been maximizing
- Future
- will maximize
- Future continuous
- will be maximizing
- Future perfect
- will have maximized
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been maximizing
Choose the auxiliary that agrees with your subject. These are constructions of one word, not separate entries.
Usage notes
Primary category: academic / formal. Forms: maximize; maximizes; maximized; maximized; maximizing Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: analysis, explanation, evaluation. Commonness: moderately common. Third-person singular: maximizes.
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