0 an attempt to find reasons for behaviour, decisions, etc., especially your own: --
1 the process of making a company, way of working, etc. more effective, usually by combining or stopping particular activities: --
Fierce competition among large numbers of firms hindered modernization and rationalization of the industry.
We feel the rationalization of manufacturing and distribution under a single management is overdue.
Combined with family politics, this meant that the unprecedented growth of bureaucracy in the 1950s was not accompanied by much rationalization.
The process of rationalization is one of several defense mechanisms against the consequences of guilty thought and feelings having been repressed into the unconscious.
This example is based on the experiences of the human code designer and his rationalization of beliefs and trust thresholds.
Both countries' governments made efforts to promote rationalization in the 1920s.
I doubt many parents would find satisfaction in such tepid rationalizations.
We could not find any obvious rationalization for this result.
This article will argue that the adoption of the dollar as a distinctive denomination was not simply a matter of financial rationalization.
We can equally dismiss a posteriori rationalizations of design intent as self-serving, and atomistic efforts to include intent as overly strong representation.
