Usually means: Reduce to the smallest amount.
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We found 34 dictionaries that define the word minimize:

General (22 matching dictionaries)
  1. minimize: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. minimize: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. minimize: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. minimize: Collins English Dictionary
  5. minimize: Vocabulary.com
  6. Minimize, minimize: Wordnik
  7. minimize: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. minimize: Wiktionary
  9. minimize: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. minimize: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. minimize: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Minimize, minimize: Dictionary.com
  13. minimize: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Minimize: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. minimize: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. minimize: Rhymezone
  17. minimize: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. minimize: Free Dictionary
  19. minimize: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. minimize: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. minimize: Legal dictionary

Computing (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. minimize: CCI Computer
  2. Minimize: Tech Terms Computer Dictionary
  3. minimize: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Lay Terms for Consent Forms (No longer online)
  3. minimize: Medical dictionary

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Minimize: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. DOD Dictionary of Military Terms (No longer online)
  2. Space and Electronic Warfare Lexicon (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive) To make (something) smaller or as small as possible; shrink; reduce.
verb:  (transitive) To relegate or assign (something) to a less insignificant status; diminish.
verb:  (computing, transitive, graphical user interface) To remove (a window) from the main display area, collapsing it to an icon or caption.
verb:  (transitive) To treat (someone) in a slighting manner.

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