Usually means: Enhance efficiency, effectiveness, and performance.
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We found 33 dictionaries that define the word optimize:

General (22 matching dictionaries)
  1. optimize: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. optimize: Merriam-Webster
  3. optimize: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. optimize: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. optimize: Collins English Dictionary
  6. optimize: Vocabulary.com
  7. Optimize, optimize: Wordnik
  8. optimize: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. optimize: Wiktionary
  10. optimize: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. optimize: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. optimize: Dictionary.com
  13. optimize: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Optimize (magazine): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. optimize: Rhymezone
  16. optimize: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. optimize: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. optimize: TheFreeDictionary.com
  19. optimize: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  20. optimize: FreeDictionary.org

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  3. optimize: Financial dictionary

Computing (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. optimize: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. optimize: Netlingo
  3. optimize: CCI Computer
  4. Webopedia (No longer online)
  5. optimize: Encyclopedia

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

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. optimize: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)

(Note: See optimized as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (originally intransitive) To act optimistically or as an optimist.
verb:  (transitive) To make (something) optimal.
verb:  (transitive) To make (something) more efficient, such as a computer program.
verb:  (intransitive) To become optimal.

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