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> "The best advice I can offer is to have the utmost respect for your developers, since they are your prized assets.

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Quick take

the greatest possible degree; "he tried his utmost"

Meaning at a glance

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noun

the greatest possible degree; "he tried his utmost"

adjective

of the greatest possible degree or extent or intensity; "extreme cold"; "extreme caution"; "extreme pleasure"; "utmost contempt"; "to the utmost degree"; "in the uttermost distress"

adjective

highest in extent or degree; "to the last measure of human endurance"; "whether they were accomplices in the last degree or a lesser one was...to be determined individually"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for utmost.

noun

the greatest possible degree; "he tried his utmost"

adjective

of the greatest possible degree or extent or intensity; "extreme cold"; "extreme caution"; "extreme pleasure"; "utmost contempt"; "to the utmost degree"; "in the uttermost distress"

adjective

highest in extent or degree; "to the last measure of human endurance"; "whether they were accomplices in the last degree or a lesser one was...to be determined individually"

adjective

(comparatives of `far') most remote in space or time or order; "had traveled to the farthest frontier"; "don't go beyond the farthermost (or furthermost) tree"; "explored the furthest reaches of space"; "the utmost tip of the peninsula"

Example sentences

> "The best advice I can offer is to have the utmost respect for your developers, since they are your prized assets.

However, they don't let that creep into their business and have the utmost respect for people in general.

That doesn't mean that, even in so believing, I wouldn't do my utmost to minimize the tax that I pay within the rules provided by the law.

But being able to explain simple arithmetic facts in clear and plain English is often neglected, and is of the utmost value.

It is of utmost importance to make names of public servants well - truly public - because they're the ones using tax-payers money and should have been defending public interest instead.

Absolutely spot on. Hellbanning a real user would probably be worse than not catching fraud in the first place, so must be avoided with utmost care.- Hellbans are made via operator decision- Hellbans are reversible and all customer support channels still work for a hellbanned user

I think people here tend to assume that being an engineer/programmer means that not only must they treat their code with utmost logic and rationality, but that they should look at life in the same manner - that to be an empathetic and emotional person puts them at some sort of optimizational and productive disadvantage.