Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun etc. See
rationalization , etc.
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- noun Alternative spelling of
rationalization .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the cognitive process of making something seem consistent with or based on reason
- noun systematic organization; the act of organizing something according to a system or a rationale
- noun (mathematics) the simplification of an expression or equation by eliminating radicals without changing the value of the expression or the roots of the equation
- noun (psychiatry) a defense mechanism by which your true motivation is concealed by explaining your actions and feelings in a way that is not threatening
- noun the organization of a business according to scientific principles of management in order to increase efficiency
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Examples
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I badly need to get my head back onto remunerative matters so a Stalinist rationalisation is due shortly
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"Cambridge is still a relatively buoyant market and Edinburgh House offers high specification space that would suit a number of biotech or medtech companies, it also provides us with the opportunity of more longer term rationalisation of the building and the generous site on which it sits."
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And of course, with the coalition eager to give newspapers access to local TV and anxious to take a more relaxed view of local monopolies, there's scope for contraction aka rationalisation.
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Phillippe – actually, this sort of consolidation is happening now through the website reviews aka rationalisation and convergence led by @digigov.
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To the victor go 'the spoils', and such including 'interpretation' oft as 'rationalisation' - and of also as complete 'fabrication' - as Orwell wrote.
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To the victor go 'the spoils', and such including 'interpretation' oft as 'rationalisation' - and of also as complete 'fabrication' - as Orwell wrote.
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This reading of the film is, of course, just as much a projection, a rationalisation which is ultimately unneccessary and reductive.
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This reading of the film is, of course, just as much a projection, a rationalisation which is ultimately unneccessary and reductive.
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Could it be that they naturally lead to this kind of rationalisation?
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Could it be that they naturally lead to this kind of rationalisation?
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