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Meanings of minimize in English

Portuguese
minimizar

Represent as less significant or important.

minimizar
Portuguese
minimizar
Catalan
denigrar

Cause to seem less serious; play down.

minimizar
Portuguese
minimizar
Catalan
minimitzar

Make small or insignificant.

minimizar
Usage of minimize in English
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An attorney can help you avoid this situation or minimize your risk.
Reuters
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Effective interventions are needed to minimize the public health implications of obesity.
Pubmed
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But simply trying to minimize the usage wasn't exactly solving the issue.
Wired
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These findings identify targets for social policy initiatives to minimize health disparities.
Pubmed
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Conclusions: The proposed thresholds minimize changes and keep coherence across anthropometric indicators.
Pubmed
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Companies may need to hire multiple cloud-services providers to minimize this risk.
Reuters
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Objective: Antibiotic prophylaxis is used to minimize infectious complications resulting from interventions.
Pubmed
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This will help minimize debit card-related fraud and theft, the bank said.
Reuters
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To minimize that, some companies are saying the W-2 should be used.
Reuters
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An understanding of these differences may help minimize disparities in oncologic treatment.
Pubmed
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That would minimize the risk of rejection and make more organs available.
Reuters
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Do try to minimize misunderstandings and mixed signals, especially in the morning.
The South African
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Whereas if we help Cachat, we might at least minimize the damage.
Crown of Slaves
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We hope to minimize our losses, Lin told Reuters in his office.
Reuters
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These funds are actively managed to minimize the taxable income they produce.
Reuters
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I did not minimize that danger, despite Ramses's offhand request for assistance.
A river in the sky
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Minimize through the time
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