'minimises' is a correct and usable word in written English.
You can use it when you want to express that something is reduced or made smaller. For example: 'The new energy-saving measures minimise the carbon footprint of the factory.'.
In a separate statement, he said: "The events over the Christmas period highlighted the unacceptable impact on the travelling public when plans go wrong … We have an obligation to manage the essential safety maintenance and renewal activity that is required and we need to do this in a manner that minimises the overall impact on society at large.
No one benefits when he minimises the crisis, by low-balling estimates of child-molesting clerics".
"More knowledgable NGOs focus on orphans and vulnerable children (OVC), so that minimises stigma within communities.
These act to tease out the issue price that pretty much equalises supply and demand and minimises the first-day pop and, along with it, the opportunity for kickbacks to underwriters.
That both improves power production and minimises the strain on the blades and the tower.
"The trust is tightening its grip on the company, which minimises the chances of a sale," says Terry Bivens, a food analyst at Bear Stearns, an investment bank in New York.
Given the speed of this year's food-price rises, governments in emerging markets have no alternative but to try to soften the blow.Where they can, these governments should subsidise the incomes of the poor, rather than food itself, because that minimises price distortions.
This concentrates the electric field and minimises the required voltage.
One device that minimises overhang, popular on America's west coast, is the "stub option"—a short-term option that "vests" (becomes available for an employee to exercise) within 12 months but expires after 13.
The origin of money is a market-led response to barter costs, in which the best money is that which minimises the costs of trade.
The scope for geopolitical instability is significant, however, and the outcome is sure to be a long way from the free migration case envisioned in the paper, which minimises welfare losses.
