maximization
IPA: mæksɪmɪzˈeɪʃʌn
noun
- The act of raising something to its greatest value or extent.
- (mathematics) The process of finding the maximum value of a function.
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Examples of "maximization" in Sentences
- Quarks are a way to explain neutrons; surplus maximization is a way to explain estoppel.
- They do not care if the hotel never gets another guest; short-term profit maximization is the goal.
- The others will cook up a nice deferred compensation plan that will involve common stock and will require short term maximization of short term profit.
- I control a privately held corporation that provides my livelihood and, I can assure you, profit maximization is not and has never been the primary goal.
- Furthermore, their performance depends on their concepts about themselves, their pragmatism, their preference for taking risks, and their valuing of short-term maximization or long-term gain.
- Some of those large institutions, such as large public pension funds, or union-associated funds, may well have agendas that go beyond the long-term maximization of profits for all shareholders.
- Leaving in place strategic assets - the building blocks for future generations, and their higher standard of living, is an anathema to short term maximization - and its cannibalistic fatal flaw.
- Halla criticizes a system that focuses "aggressively and indiscriminately" on the short-term maximization of profits, without any regard for losses, that is oriented on short-lived market prices and lucrative bonus payments.
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