Usually means: Make better, more efficient, effective.
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General (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. optimise: Merriam-Webster
  2. optimise: Collins English Dictionary
  3. optimise: Vocabulary.com
  4. Optimise, optimise: Wordnik
  5. optimise: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. optimise: Wiktionary
  7. optimise: Dictionary.com
  8. optimise: Rhymezone
  9. optimise: FreeDictionary.org
  10. optimise: Mnemonic Dictionary
  11. optimise: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. optimise: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. optimise: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. FOLDOP - Free On Line Dictionary Of Philosophy (No longer online)

(Note: See optimises as well.)

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verb:  Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of optimize. [(originally intransitive) To act optimistically or as an optimist.]

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