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maximization

Academic Word List, sublist 3.

About 1.45 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun The act of raising something to its greatest value or extent.
    Monopolies engaging in profit maximization will produce at the quantity where its marginal revenue equals marginal cost.
  2. noun The process of finding the maximum value of a function.

Similar words

maximisation maximise maximum optimizing optimisation utility value optimize optimization optimise

Often followed by

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Word family

max maximisation maximise maximised maximises maximising maximize maximized maximizes maximizing

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