minimizing
- 1Present participle and gerund of minimize.
The company is minimizing costs by switching to a cheaper supplier.
Minimizing risk became the board's top priority this quarter.
Note
The -ing form carries every meaning of minimize, and each one wants an object: you are always minimizing something. It can mean shrinking a quantity (minimizing costs), playing down importance (minimizing a mistake), slighting a person, or collapsing a window to an icon on a computer screen. As a gerund it heads a noun phrase that keeps its object (minimizing risk), and that object usually tells you which meaning is in play.
minimizing is a form of minimize
minimize, verb: To make something smaller or reduce it to the lowest possible amount or degree. Full entry
- Spelling
- minimize → minimizing: drop the e, add -ing
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