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UK
/ɹˌæʃənəlaɪzˈeɪʃən/
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NOUN
- the organization of a business according to scientific principles of management in order to increase efficiency
- the cognitive process of making something seem consistent with or based on reason
- systematic organization; the act of organizing something according to a system or a rationale
- (psychiatry) a defense mechanism by which your true motivation is concealed by explaining your actions and feelings in a way that is not threatening
- (mathematics) the simplification of an expression or equation by eliminating radicals without changing the value of the expression or the roots of the equation
How To Use rationalisation In A Sentence
- Such standardization and rationalization of diverse local practices was promoted by lawyers who were the agents of change.
- The untold story here, however, is the rationalisation that has transformed the industry in recent years.
- Five court venues in County Mayo are to be discontinued as part of a major rationalisation by the Court Service.
- How credible are cops' and prosecutors' rationalizations for no-knock searches going to be after people start blogging videos (preferably with sound) of what actually happens during these official home-invasions?
- This has tied in well with the rationalisation of the booking process.
- The first phase - focused on rationalisation and asset disposal - has been successfully completed and management deserves credit for this.
- No rationalization that human beings give for their cruelty or neglect is ever meaningful to him.
- Rationalization: The potato-y qualities of the steroidal supermarket berries are mitigated by cooking, and the store-bought rhubarb is just fine, usually. Toast:
- And likely is doing the best she can, with rationalizations trying to outyell the reservations. The Mom in the Mirror | Her Bad Mother
- He said it would further the rationalisation of the dairy processing industry in Ireland and lead to cost savings through greater efficiencies.