0 present 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:
Reforms designed to promote production by rationalizing agricultural markets for land, inputs, and products unintentionally discriminate against women living on small holdings.
Even without dissolving team farming itself, many identifiable economic problems could have been solved by rationalizing state agricultural policies.
Without democratic deliberation, power struggles became the main means for rationalizing the party-state's ideological and policy orientation.
But subjectively, the hardening and rationalizing make the misery more tolerable.
Note that this account re-motivates the lack of fit by rationalizing referent-indexicality as bystander-indexicality.
Clinical guidelines have received much attention as public policy tools for reforming and rationalizing health care (9;11;15;35;42;71).
Rationalizing the effects of modified electrostatic interactions in computer simulations : the dielectric self-consistent field method.
The women may also be rationalizing their situation since they are less likely to become pregnant than the younger women.
