Usually means: Reduce to the smallest amount.
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General (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. minimise: Merriam-Webster
  2. minimise: Collins English Dictionary
  3. minimise: Vocabulary.com
  4. Minimise, minimise: Wordnik
  5. minimise: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. minimise: Wiktionary
  7. minimise: Dictionary.com
  8. minimise: Rhymezone
  9. minimise: FreeDictionary.org
  10. minimise: Mnemonic Dictionary
  11. minimise: TheFreeDictionary.com

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

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. minimise: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. MINIMISE: Acronym Finder

(Note: See minimises as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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verb:  Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of minimize. [(transitive) To make (something) smaller or as small as possible; shrink; reduce.]

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