Definitions
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- noun Chiefly Brit. Maximization.
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- noun Alternative spelling of
maximization .
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- noun the act of raising to the highest possible point or condition or position
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Examples
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"We are not looking for short-term maximisation of profit," she said.
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Could this be a blatant, short-term maximisation of copyright income dressed up as protection for artists 'earnings and intellectual property rights?
Computerworld 2010
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Could this be a blatant, short-term maximisation of copyright income dressed up as protection for artists 'earnings and intellectual property rights?
Computerworld 2010
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But further from Canary Wharf and the City, more vocational, socially-conscious managers had already woken up to the dangers of 'maximisation' as a goal.
openDemocracy William Davies 2010
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The engineering culture has been replaced by a profit maximisation culture in which a certain number of supply interruptions are accepted by management as the justifiable result of maximising efficiency.
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While Porter doesn't mention the term explicitly, he is in effect calling on all businesses large and small to reinvent themselves as social enterprises and redefine their operations beyond profit maximisation towards addressing societal needs.
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Yet when they go public, most companies start to take on the ethos of the City – short-term profit maximisation, loyalty to shareholders alone and little or no loyalty to the country that nurtured them in the first place.
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Any maximisation problem complex enough to be of interest -- Linear programming.
Math and Economics, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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I think this idea could work if rightzoom toggles between the two application tool states AND a maximisation mode. that would actually be alright.
RightZoom Makes The OS X Maximise Button More Like Windows | Lifehacker Australia 2009
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Still, in this age of professionalism and performance maximisation, it does seem a bit extreme.
Dan Cole the tighthead Tiger who is too good to ditch Michael Aylwin 2010
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