choice of words: minimized to - limited to

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The company's first products were minimized to hats and scarfs only, but soon after other accessories were added to the range of products.

Is that sentence correct? I think it should rather be:

At first the company's assortment was limited to scarfs and hats, but other accessories were added to its range soon after.

You are right. 'Minimized' has the sense of 'deliberately made as small as possible', which is not appropriate in this context. — Kate Bunting, Jan 22, 2018 at 9:22
They do not mean the same. Both minimized and limited are perfect right and have their uses. Think again. — Kris, Jan 22, 2018 at 10:43
@EdwinAshworth What could be wrong with minimise + to + NP? books.google.com/ngrams/… — Kris, Jan 22, 2018 at 10:45
@Kris There are modern examples such as 'minimised to the taskbar' using a quasi-directional to-phrase, but I haven't found any examples using OP's 'limited / restricted / confined' [to a less-than-the-maximum-possible range etc] sense. Have you? I can't get to the examples from Ngrams nowadays. — Edwin Ashworth, Jan 22, 2018 at 16:48

MikeRoger · Accepted Answer · 2018-01-22 10:30:04Z

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Limited or confined.

The company's first products were limited to hats and scarfs only, but soon after other accessories were added to the range of products.

answered Jan 22, 2018 at 10:30

MikeRoger

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Why not minimized?
– Kris
Jan 22, 2018 at 10:43
Hi @Kris, as explained above by Kate B. Also note, noun phrase or nominal phrase (abbreviated NP) is a phrase which has a noun (or indefinite pronoun) as its head, or which performs the same grammatical function as such a phrase, ref en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noun_phrase
– MikeRoger
Jan 22, 2018 at 10:49
What about that?
– Kris
Jan 22, 2018 at 10:52

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