Usually means: Reduces to the smallest amount.
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General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. minimizes: Merriam-Webster
  2. minimizes: Collins English Dictionary
  3. minimizes: Vocabulary.com
  4. Minimizes, minimizes: Wordnik
  5. minimizes: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. minimizes: Wiktionary
  7. minimizes: Dictionary.com
  8. minimizes: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. minimizes: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. minimizes: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. minimizes: Encyclopedia

(Note: See minimize as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (minimize)

verb:  (transitive) To make (something) smaller or as small as possible; shrink; reduce.
verb:  (transitive) To relegate or assign (something) to a less insignificant status; diminish.
verb:  (computing, transitive, graphical user interface) To remove (a window) from the main display area, collapsing it to an icon or caption.
verb:  (transitive) To treat (someone) in a slighting manner.
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