RATIONALIZE


Meaning of RATIONALIZE in English

verb

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

Glen tries to rationalize his drinking by saying he deserves a beer after a hard day.

Since the administrative side of the business has been rationalized, all departments have become more efficient.

The budget proposed selling off $1,300 million worth of state-run enterprises and rationalizing the tax structure.

The company has done a lot to rationalize production.

The Social Security system needs to be rationalized.

We are a small company, and we need to rationalize if we want to compete in this market.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

Abstract internationalism had a strong role to play in rationalizing much more sinister forces than appeared in the rhetoric of Petrograd.

I was rationalizing that I had mainly young reps and so they needed me....

It is still rationalized by an elaborate and traditional, even if meretricious, theory of consumer demand.

Like Nietzsche, Feuerbach frequently shows more sympathy for orthodox believers than for rationalizing modernist theologians.

Repeated attempts were made to rationalize the system.

Whining is a form of rationalizing.

You can try to rationalize your low weight loss.

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