0 past simple and past participle of rationalize
1 to try to find reasons to explain your behaviour, decisions, etc.:
2 to make a company, way of working, etc. more effective, usually by combining or stopping particular activities, or (of a company, way of working, etc.) to become more effective in this way:
This implies that the data can be rationalized by a well-behaved utility function and is, therefore, consistent with utility maximization.
Example 7 illustrates this graphically, using 'rationalized' values.
Southern nationalism's realpolitik nevertheless demanded that partition was rationalized as a matter of self-preservation.
The older models of recruitment into government-patronage and apprenticeship primarily-were no longer sufficient to meet the demands of an increasingly rationalized administrative structure.
Such lexical suggestion may itself be rationalized by more extended types of narratives.
First, consider whether attitudes are invariably rationalized, rather than based on thought.
Manufacture, thus rationalized, therefore represented a superior plant structure which soon replaced the previous forms of production.
When he does violate it, neither guilt nor shame is typically absent, but the act will have been rationalized by him.
