rationalize


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reason out

streamline

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Synonyms for rationalize

to show to be just, right, or valid

to offer reasons for or a cause of

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Synonyms for rationalize

defend, explain, clear away, or make excuses for by reasoning

weed out unwanted or unnecessary things

structure and run according to rational or scientific principles in order to achieve desired results

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think rationally

remove irrational quantities from

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Investigators may rationalize a crime merely by explaining to the suspect that the deviant act was logical behavior that anyone in his position would have done because the reward outweighed the possibility of capture and prosecution.
Smurfit-Stone Container Corp., Chicago, Illinois, USA, plans to rationalize operations and reduce costs in its containerboard mill, boxboard mill, and packaging operations.
Today's CEOs often rationalize their entitlement to big earnings as an appropriate reward for their entrepreneurship.
They've been there for years, offering testimony of a sustained brutality that is hard to credit, much less rationalize. But the material of history is one thing; the demands of memory another.
Conquer your "yes-buts." Many people attempt to rationalize avoiding a particular task with, "Yes, I should work on that project now, but...." Most of us are good at rationalizing why we choose to do something later rather than now; however, in order to conquer your yes-buts, you must stick to your priorities, follow your to-do list and learn to use your prime time.
It may trouble believers that thousands of devout people of all faiths died at the World Trade Center, but in the end they will find some way to rationalize the tragedy And though some equally fine, honest, and upstanding people of no faith at all died together with the devout, if God is so unhappy with us couldn't he have sent at least one of the planes into a convention of atheists?
Technologies like LifePath may make it easier to rationalize euthanasia, but the fact remains: Technology cannot make morality obsolete.
They celebrate space, unlike the Calvinists from Switzerland and Holland who like to rationalize it.
But banks, like manufacturers, must rationalize their products, services and customer bases so their resources in sales, marketing, administration, operations and systems can support their most profitable products and customers.
The most common non-Christian response to this idea is that imaginative interpretations allow the Bible to contain the appropriate passage to prove or rationalize just about anything.
The DOF has been pushing to rationalize tax incentives.
ISLAMABAD -- OGRA will conduct the third party audit of the LPG producers and marketing companies which will help to rationalize the LPG prices.
Matsumoto, who is also the chairman and CEO of Sumitomo Electronic Industries, said he is 'very satisfied with the explanation' of the finance chief about the need to rationalize fiscal incentives in the country.