maximising

1. 1.

   making as great as possible

   Synonymsmaximizing

   Similarincreasing

Questions about maximising

What does maximising mean?

maximising means "making as great as possible".

How many syllables are in maximising?

maximising has 4 syllables: max-i-mi-sing. The stress falls on "i".

What is another word for maximising?

Close synonyms include maximizing. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is maximising a common word?

maximising is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.