verb · academic
optimize
UK/ˈɒptɪmaɪz/US/ˈɑːptəmaɪz/OP·ti·mize
to make something as effective, perfect, or useful as possible within given constraints
Examples
“We need to optimize the website to reduce loading times.”
“The company optimized its supply chain to lower costs.”
“In Task 2, students sometimes propose ways to optimize public services.”
Band 8 sentence
“To improve efficiency, the team optimized the production schedule using linear programming.”
Collocations
- optimize processes
- optimize for speed
- optimize performance
Word family
Common mistakes
We need to optimize for reduce costs.→We need to optimize to reduce costs.
They optimize the code yesterday.→They optimized the code yesterday.
Say it for a higher band
5make better→6improve→7+optimize
Synonyms
improve
fine-tune
Easily confused
improve
“We improved the design, but there is still room to optimize it.”
fine-tune
“After deployment, the engineers fine-tuned the algorithm.”
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