rationalization
/ˌræʃənələˈzeɪʃən/
noun
- The act of trying to explain or justify behavior or an attitude with logical reasons, even if those are not the real reasons.
- His rationalization for being late was that traffic was terrible, but really he just overslept.
- She used a clever rationalization to avoid admitting she had made a mistake.
- The company's rationalization of the layoffs as 'restructuring' didn't fool the employees.
- The process of making a system, organization, or activity more efficient by removing unnecessary parts or simplifying it.
- The rationalization of the factory's production line saved the company millions of dollars.
- The government announced a rationalization of the tax code to make it easier to understand.
- After the merger, the rationalization of the two departments led to many job cuts.
- In mathematics, the process of eliminating radicals or irrational numbers from the denominator of a fraction.
- The teacher explained that rationalization makes calculations simpler.
- Rationalization of the fraction 1/√2 gives you √2/2.
- In algebra class, we learned the rationalization of denominators with square roots.
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