verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
reduce/minimize a risk
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This diet could reduce your risk of certain cancers.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
chance
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Clearly, at whichever spot minimizes your chance of being eaten.
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It minimizes the chance of excessive competition.
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Quinn went directly to Clinton with his thick petition, minimizing the chance that Justice would open a file.
cost
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Cash flows should be managed to optimize the return from cash received and to minimize the cost of finance.
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Are there actions you can take now to avoid or minimize the cost of this disease?
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The first is that it is hard to ensure that the industry really does minimize costs .
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Layoffs are minimized , and costs are reduced.
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However, through the application of good engineering we have minimized the potentially high cost increases.
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Ignoring returns, they concentrate only on minimizing costs .
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In order to minimize cost and keep things simple, the signal levels are non-standard.
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First, by minimizing conversion capital costs while backing out of expensive oil we conserve both capital and consumer resources.
costs
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The first is that it is hard to ensure that the industry really does minimize costs .
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Layoffs are minimized , and costs are reduced.
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Ignoring returns, they concentrate only on minimizing costs .
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First, by minimizing conversion capital costs while backing out of expensive oil we conserve both capital and consumer resources.
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They provide food products at lower cost than conventional supermarkets; they minimize operating costs and customer services.
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The organization that compulsively seeks to minimize the costs of its actions is for ever at odds with the reality of its performance.
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The overriding goal of state policy was to keep the elderly as independent as possible, so as to minimize costs .
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Self-defeating organizations are nothing if not adroit at minimizing the costs of their destructive or ineffectual actions.
damage
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Pipes are outside the buildings to minimize damage in case of an earthquake.
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In fact, our focus became just trying to make sure the kid understands all of this, to minimize the damage .
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It was a method designed to minimize damage .
effect
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Let us consider possible distortions and ways in which we can minimize their effect .
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A.. To minimize the effects of that destruction.
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And in the process we can help minimize the effect of compound loss in an elderly person's life.
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A thicker-skinned child would be affected by such behavior but be able to minimize the effects .
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The actual path taken by the orbiter is complex and designed to minimize the effect of air resistance on the craft.
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If I hit a bad shot, I try to minimize its effect .
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Subsequently, family friends and biographers have tried to minimize the effect .
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Risk is best allocated to the party who is best placed to minimize its effects .
impact
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It is a mistake to minimize the impact of the new cosmology, but resources were available to protect a spiritual destiny.
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At times I tried to minimize the impact of the move.
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It aims to minimize its impact and subsequently treat and cure it.
number
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Gene order was determined by minimizing the number of recombination events required to explain the allele distribution patterns.
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He did his best to dodge trouble and minimize the number of people who considered him an enemy.
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Since interviewing is costly try to minimize the number that you conduct.
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The aim is to maximise the number of solved problems while minimizing the number of conceptual problems and anomalies.
problem
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One obvious way to minimize this problem is to reduce the number of different data formats.
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Campaigning here Tuesday, Dole sought to minimize his problems .
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This use of data at two levels of analysis seeks to minimize the problem of ecological fallacy.
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The free-flowing water across the surface serves to dampen these sound waves and minimize the problem .
risk
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Systematic evaluation and forecasting can minimize risks but never eliminate them.
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Victims tend to minimize the risk they are experiencing.
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This caution obviously arises from the need to minimize the risk of long-term side-effects caused by seemingly innocent new substances.
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No criticism attaches to the effort of the modern corporation to minimize risk .
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Where possible, information on an issue was collected from several different respondents to minimize the risk of bias.
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It tormented him to think that something might happen in his absence, and he made every effort to minimize the risks .
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This organic staining method was chosen to minimize the risk of contamination by inorganic elements.
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A risk management program means all programs to minimize extraordinarily hazardous accident risks.
way
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One obvious way to minimize this problem is to reduce the number of different data formats.
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Thus care in indexing is essential and systems should be designed in such a way as to minimize the possibility of error.
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This intervention was seen as a way of minimizing the harmful and the more undesirable side-effects of commercially funded media.
■ VERB
design
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She was buxom, and the rust-red pullover she wore was not designed to minimize the fact.
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It was a method designed to minimize damage.
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The actual path taken by the orbiter is complex and designed to minimize the effect of air resistance on the craft.
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They may also be designed to minimize the pressure to disclose government documents.
seek
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This use of data at two levels of analysis seeks to minimize the problem of ecological fallacy.
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When a well-intentioned program yields unwelcome results, for example, a truth-aversive organization will seek to minimize or disguise these consquences.
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The organization that compulsively seeks to minimize the costs of its actions is for ever at odds with the reality of its performance.
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In effect Gingrich pleaded guilty to both offenses while seeking to minimize their importance.
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Campaigning here Tuesday, Dole sought to minimize his problems.
try
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They try to minimize electronics imports from each other and are often in direct competition in export markets.
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At times I tried to minimize the impact of the move.
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In fact the narrator's language is positively austere as he tries to minimize our sense of recapitulation.
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If I hit a bad shot, I try to minimize its effect.
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Subsequently, family friends and biographers have tried to minimize the effect.
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So you should try to minimize restrictions about diet and environment as much as possible.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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The city is working on plans to minimize traffic problems.
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White House officials sought to minimize the importance of the meeting.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Before you sell any mutual funds, minimize taxes by checking different ways of computing costs.
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By contrast, a recreational paddler in a remote gorge will want to maximize safety and minimize energy expenditure.
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He is meticulous in developing, implementing and maintaining systems which minimize inventory and maximize profit.
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Peers working together minimize the pain of some schoolwork, while promoting learning and cooperation for both.
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Pipes are outside the buildings to minimize damage in case of an earthquake.
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Some creasing is inevitable but it can be minimized by judicious stretching of the liner as the pool fills.
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The first is that it is hard to ensure that the industry really does minimize costs.
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To minimize risks, they would not be required to disarm the several militia groups responsible for recent massacres.