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Definition of rationalize in English: rationalize(British rationalise) verb ˈraʃ(ə)n(ə)lʌɪz [with object]1Attempt to explain or justify (behaviour or an attitude) with logical reasons, even if these are not appropriate. she couldn't rationalize her urge to return to the cottage Example sentencesExamples - Or maybe I was rationalizing away something I didn't want to see.
- I know it sounds like I'm rationalising bad behaviour.
- How did the individuals who masterminded and ran the camp system rationalize their own behavior?
- Is this really a song about an abuser rationalizing his violent behaviour - or just a guy saying look I'm moody and hard to live with?
- ‘I like things to be just right,’ he said, laughing as he attempts to rationalise his behaviour.
- There is an all too-human tendency to rationalise our own behaviour, especially when we act irresponsibly or cruelly.
- Everybody is trying to rationalise behaviour that a previous generation would have been horrified by.
- They use all this brainpower to rationalize away problems and feelings.
- Takeovers of car companies are always rationalized on the basis of finding new markets for the struggling company's vehicles.
- It's easy to rationalise one's behaviour by quoting conspiracy theories.
- Actions are rationalized on the basis that the ends justify the means.
- And the question would be so concise that there would be no room for you to minimise, justify or rationalise your behaviour.
- Looking at the root cause rather than rationalizing negative behaviors results in workplace improvements.
- Hard to believe that these people can justify and rationalize such sickening behavior!
- You can easily rationalize it by telling yourself it's work-related.
- There was the bitterness over the recruiters' deception, but they tried their best to rationalize what was happening.
- She could easily rationalize her actions by thinking she's working towards moving out of there.
- He didn't bother trying to rationalize what the sound could have been.
- Any attempt to justify and rationalize this is probably beside the point.
- He understood that the only way to rationalize slavery was to negate the slave's humanity.
Synonyms justify, explain (away), account for, defend, vindicate, excuse, make excuses for, make allowances for, give an explanation for, provide a rationale for, make acceptable rare extenuate 2British Make (a company, process, or industry) more efficient, especially by dispensing with superfluous personnel or equipment. if we rationalize production, will that mean redundancies? Example sentencesExamples - The government just finished drawing up a rough plan for streamlining and rationalizing the corporations at the end of last year.
- In the late 1980s Armco wished to rationalise its businesses.
- This funds a huge burst of creativity - which is followed by a Darwinian process that rationalizes the industry.
- Since then Murphy and his team have been engaged in the acrimonious process of rationalising the troubled food group.
- Hayley is like a machine, carrying out incremental change to rationalise companies.
- Mr Bunyan said there was enormous scope to rationalise courier companies which deliver to people in rural communities.
- We wanted a Decommissioning Scheme with sufficient funding to make a real impact on rationalising the Industry.
- GM sought to rationalize its business by eliminating brands and thus was motivated to end the Daewoo dealer network.
- Good progress is reported to have been made in talks to rationalise the beef industry, worth €1.5 billion to the economy.
- Today, more than ever, the primary challenge facing the CEO is to build management teams that know how to create soundly rationalized businesses - and manage them to last.
- In light of that, Irish Sugar's decision to rationalise the industry is timely.
- The Thatcher government set out to rationalise Britain's state-run industries in preparation for privatisation.
- The court was told the company made seven people redundant in July as a result of ‘ongoing financial losses and the requirement to rationalise the business’.
- As work in the garment industry was rationalized, then parceled out for the lowest possible wage, the large mass of garment workers became not craftsmen but a proletarian labor force.
- Hurt by a downturn in the print industry, Wyndeham has been rationalising its business units to improve efficiency.
- Maybe I'm getting too personal about this, but rationalizing the movie business drives me mad.
- The process of rationalising our property portfolio has been finalised.
- These stories voiced a persistent, cynical New York belief: that the mob rationalizes complicated industries for businesses.
- This competition is seeing the players invest heavily into their brands, poaching talent, launching new products, and rationalising the overall business.
- Ultimately, companies wishing to instill more discipline in the R&D process are out to rationalize their product portfolios.
- 2.1 Reorganize (a process or system) so as to make it more logical and consistent.
Parliament should seek to rationalize the country's court structure Example sentencesExamples - While custom tailors sold individually fitted suits and other personalized apparel, they increasingly rationalized the production process in order to reduce basic costs.
- The book lauds quartermaster general Alexander Lawton's efforts to rationalize the procurement process.
- The printing process is not a core competency of ours, so we needed experts to rationalise the process fully.
- Its arrival has not yielded a new Constitution, rationalised the party system, modernised justice or overhauled the bureaucracy in any of the ways its advocates hoped it would.
- Another idea, which has been adopted by internet-based direct selling sites to rationalise the process, is the decision tree.
- So what, then, is the big problem with simply trying to rationalize the system?
- To rationalize the process, DiFrancesco uses three ‘buckets’: physical capital, technology capital, and human capital.
- As the prison system is rationalized and restructured through each of these individual decisions, it's clear that the prisoners themselves are just pawns.
- The computer system needs upgrading, there is a manpower shortage and there is a need to rationalise the system so that fewer checks on routine imports are automatically carried out.
- With this in view, I want to make a beginning towards rationalising the existing system of concessions and exemptions.
- This concentration on rationalizing the tax system, however, fatally ignored the real Achilles heel of the royal finances.
- The idea of money came about because there was a need to rationalise trade, to provide a base against which the worth of some object could be measured.
- The extravagance of the court and the high cost of war absorbed all of France's resources and efforts to rationalize the tax system failed.
- A photoinduced intraenzyme electron-transfer model is proposed to rationalize the photoreactivation process.
- But the system was rationalized and improved by Alfred's successors, and under Eadgar it emerges clearly in its developed form.
- The commission rationalized this system, explaining that other transportation networks already charge variable rates for use at peak hours.
- They also helped rationalize the economy and guarantee unions' social and political role.
- Also, few modern regulating structures exist and the systems need to be rationalized to eliminate duplication or resources and increase the irrigable area.
- However, progress had been more limited in improving the efficiency of the public administration, and in rationalising the health care and education systems.
- After the war there were script reforms carried out to rationalise the writing system, but that connection between characters and Japanese identity remains very strong.
Synonyms streamline, make more efficient, improve the running of, trim, slim down, hone, make economies in, reduce wastage in, simplify make cutbacks in, cut back on, prune, retrench on reorganize, modernize, update reorganize clarify, make consistent, apply logic/reasoning to rare pragmatize
3Mathematics
Convert (a function or expression) to a rational form. Example sentencesExamples - I don't care about rationalising denominators with surds in them, and I don't care that by using maths induction you can prove many equations to be right or wrong.
- He knew that when some irrational number produced a very large quotient then it could be rationalised to produce an extremely accurate approximation to some irrational.
- These effects should be considered when rationalizing the physical significance of n.
- By generalizing the Onsager transport model we derived a set of equations that rationalize all pertinent observations.
Derivatives noun Shaq's success has exposed a host of critics and rationalizers - including Shaq himself - as clueless. Example sentencesExamples - For their part, rationalizers preferred minimal requirements to optimal ones.
- Indeed, there is no ‘why,’ a word which belongs to the accountants and rationalizers.
- It could have been invented for some other purpose, and then commandeered by the rationalizers of slavery.
- On these and many other questions, rationalizers changed their minds.
Definition of rationalize in US English: rationalize(British rationalise) verb [with object]1Attempt to explain or justify (one's own or another's behavior or attitude) with logical, plausible reasons, even if these are not true or appropriate. she couldn't rationalize her urge to return to the cottage Example sentencesExamples - I know it sounds like I'm rationalising bad behaviour.
- Takeovers of car companies are always rationalized on the basis of finding new markets for the struggling company's vehicles.
- Looking at the root cause rather than rationalizing negative behaviors results in workplace improvements.
- And the question would be so concise that there would be no room for you to minimise, justify or rationalise your behaviour.
- It's easy to rationalise one's behaviour by quoting conspiracy theories.
- He didn't bother trying to rationalize what the sound could have been.
- Is this really a song about an abuser rationalizing his violent behaviour - or just a guy saying look I'm moody and hard to live with?
- There was the bitterness over the recruiters' deception, but they tried their best to rationalize what was happening.
- Everybody is trying to rationalise behaviour that a previous generation would have been horrified by.
- They use all this brainpower to rationalize away problems and feelings.
- Any attempt to justify and rationalize this is probably beside the point.
- Or maybe I was rationalizing away something I didn't want to see.
- Actions are rationalized on the basis that the ends justify the means.
- How did the individuals who masterminded and ran the camp system rationalize their own behavior?
- There is an all too-human tendency to rationalise our own behaviour, especially when we act irresponsibly or cruelly.
- ‘I like things to be just right,’ he said, laughing as he attempts to rationalise his behaviour.
- She could easily rationalize her actions by thinking she's working towards moving out of there.
- You can easily rationalize it by telling yourself it's work-related.
- He understood that the only way to rationalize slavery was to negate the slave's humanity.
- Hard to believe that these people can justify and rationalize such sickening behavior!
Synonyms justify, explain, explain away, account for, defend, vindicate, excuse, make excuses for, make allowances for, give an explanation for, provide a rationale for, make acceptable 2British Make (a company, process, or industry) more efficient, especially by dispensing with superfluous personnel or equipment. his success was due primarily to his ability to rationalize production Example sentencesExamples - Today, more than ever, the primary challenge facing the CEO is to build management teams that know how to create soundly rationalized businesses - and manage them to last.
- The Thatcher government set out to rationalise Britain's state-run industries in preparation for privatisation.
- This funds a huge burst of creativity - which is followed by a Darwinian process that rationalizes the industry.
- Since then Murphy and his team have been engaged in the acrimonious process of rationalising the troubled food group.
- In light of that, Irish Sugar's decision to rationalise the industry is timely.
- GM sought to rationalize its business by eliminating brands and thus was motivated to end the Daewoo dealer network.
- The government just finished drawing up a rough plan for streamlining and rationalizing the corporations at the end of last year.
- The court was told the company made seven people redundant in July as a result of ‘ongoing financial losses and the requirement to rationalise the business’.
- Hayley is like a machine, carrying out incremental change to rationalise companies.
- Good progress is reported to have been made in talks to rationalise the beef industry, worth €1.5 billion to the economy.
- The process of rationalising our property portfolio has been finalised.
- We wanted a Decommissioning Scheme with sufficient funding to make a real impact on rationalising the Industry.
- This competition is seeing the players invest heavily into their brands, poaching talent, launching new products, and rationalising the overall business.
- Maybe I'm getting too personal about this, but rationalizing the movie business drives me mad.
- In the late 1980s Armco wished to rationalise its businesses.
- Hurt by a downturn in the print industry, Wyndeham has been rationalising its business units to improve efficiency.
- As work in the garment industry was rationalized, then parceled out for the lowest possible wage, the large mass of garment workers became not craftsmen but a proletarian labor force.
- Ultimately, companies wishing to instill more discipline in the R&D process are out to rationalize their product portfolios.
- These stories voiced a persistent, cynical New York belief: that the mob rationalizes complicated industries for businesses.
- Mr Bunyan said there was enormous scope to rationalise courier companies which deliver to people in rural communities.
- 2.1 Reorganize (a process or system) so as to make it more logical and consistent.
Parliament should seek to rationalize the country's court structure Example sentencesExamples - However, progress had been more limited in improving the efficiency of the public administration, and in rationalising the health care and education systems.
- As the prison system is rationalized and restructured through each of these individual decisions, it's clear that the prisoners themselves are just pawns.
- A photoinduced intraenzyme electron-transfer model is proposed to rationalize the photoreactivation process.
- Another idea, which has been adopted by internet-based direct selling sites to rationalise the process, is the decision tree.
- With this in view, I want to make a beginning towards rationalising the existing system of concessions and exemptions.
- But the system was rationalized and improved by Alfred's successors, and under Eadgar it emerges clearly in its developed form.
- Also, few modern regulating structures exist and the systems need to be rationalized to eliminate duplication or resources and increase the irrigable area.
- This concentration on rationalizing the tax system, however, fatally ignored the real Achilles heel of the royal finances.
- The computer system needs upgrading, there is a manpower shortage and there is a need to rationalise the system so that fewer checks on routine imports are automatically carried out.
- The commission rationalized this system, explaining that other transportation networks already charge variable rates for use at peak hours.
- The printing process is not a core competency of ours, so we needed experts to rationalise the process fully.
- After the war there were script reforms carried out to rationalise the writing system, but that connection between characters and Japanese identity remains very strong.
- The extravagance of the court and the high cost of war absorbed all of France's resources and efforts to rationalize the tax system failed.
- The idea of money came about because there was a need to rationalise trade, to provide a base against which the worth of some object could be measured.
- They also helped rationalize the economy and guarantee unions' social and political role.
- Its arrival has not yielded a new Constitution, rationalised the party system, modernised justice or overhauled the bureaucracy in any of the ways its advocates hoped it would.
- So what, then, is the big problem with simply trying to rationalize the system?
- The book lauds quartermaster general Alexander Lawton's efforts to rationalize the procurement process.
- While custom tailors sold individually fitted suits and other personalized apparel, they increasingly rationalized the production process in order to reduce basic costs.
- To rationalize the process, DiFrancesco uses three ‘buckets’: physical capital, technology capital, and human capital.
Synonyms streamline, make more efficient, improve the running of, trim, slim down, hone, make economies in, reduce wastage in, simplify reorganize
3Mathematics
Convert (a function or expression) to a rational form. Example sentencesExamples - He knew that when some irrational number produced a very large quotient then it could be rationalised to produce an extremely accurate approximation to some irrational.
- By generalizing the Onsager transport model we derived a set of equations that rationalize all pertinent observations.
- These effects should be considered when rationalizing the physical significance of n.
- I don't care about rationalising denominators with surds in them, and I don't care that by using maths induction you can prove many equations to be right or wrong.
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