rationalization

rationalize | American Dictionary

rationalize
verb[ I/T ]
us/ˈræʃ·ə·nəlˌɑɪz/
to create a reason, explanation, or excuse for something:
[ T ]You can rationalize your way out of anything.

rationalization

noun[ C/U ]us/ˌræʃ·ə·nəl·əˈzeɪ·ʃən/
[ C ]Parents are fed up with rationalizations about why schools don’t work.

rationalize | Business English

rationalize
verb[ I or T ]
(UK usuallyrationalise)uk /ˈræʃənəlaɪz/us
WORKPLACE, MANAGEMENT
to make a company, way of working, etc. more effective, usually by combining or stopping particular activities, or by employing fewer people:
The economic reforms include abolishing export and import licensing, and rationalizing and reducing import tariffs.
Global economic trends have forced many companies to rationalize their operations.

rationalization

noun[ C or U ](UK usuallyrationalisation)/ˌræʃənəlɪˈzeɪʃən/
The rationalization of the tariff structure was aimed at promoting exports of local products.
the reorganization and rationalization of the company's overseas operations

Examples of rationalize

rationalize
The lack of fit between state-sponsored terminologies and actual everyday practice is rationalized by speakers in various metapragmatic narratives, including some routinized ones.
Market incompleteness rationalizes the existence of gradual changes in consumption.
Other cases are not easily rationalized since there is no known function for the proteases during seed maturation.
Clinical guidelines have received much attention as public policy tools for reforming and rationalizing health care (9;11;15;35;42;71).
The women may also be rationalizing their situation since they are less likely to become pregnant than the younger women.
Although this allocation of risk may seem extreme, it may be rationalized with the argument that wages are sluggish due to contractual arrangements.
Ineluctably rationalizing the division of labor, the state becomes the prime mover in fracturing the human into the stunted and the tunnel-visioned.
Pro-natal policies may have emerged from a multiplicity of factors rationalized by patriarchal ideological under pinnings, but not entirely ref lective of them.
In other words it is the rhythmic plurality as found in concrete musical composition that is justified and rationalized by emanating from a trinitarian unity.
By parts 3 and 4 of the theorem, if there is a utility function that rationalizes the data, it will have the properties typically assumed in consumer theory.
The central guideline was formulated on the basis of rationalizing the overlap of the two kinds of agricultural taxes, the rationality of each of the two taken for granted.
If readers were not merely passive recipients of a newspaper's ideology, they were hardly immune to the attraction of printed ideas which rationalized their own interests.
However, there is much sense in rationalizing the many hundreds of potentially useful species into a list of those food crops that have the greatest development potential and regional importance.
Despite an attempt at rationalizing the fiscal system, the politics of votes, threats and bargaining appears to have crept into even the institutions specifically designed to overcome such politicization.
The prophetic model facilitated and rationalized social changes, whereas the principle of descent facilitated and rationalized the maintenance of status and its transmission to succeeding generations.
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