rationalization
pronunciation
How to pronounce rationalization in British English:
UK [ˌræʃnəlaɪ'zeɪʃn]
How to pronounce rationalization in American English:
US [ˌræʃənəlɪˈzeʃən]
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- Noun:
- the cognitive process of making something seem consistent with or based on reason
- (psychiatry) a defense mechanism by which your true motivation is concealed by explaining your actions and feelings in a way that is not threatening
- (mathematics) the simplification of an expression or equation by eliminating radicals without changing the value of the expression or the roots of the equation
- the organization of a business according to scientific principles of management in order to increase efficiency
- systematic organization; the act of organizing something according to a system or a rationale
Word Origin
- rationalization (n.)
- 1825, "a rendering rational," from rationalize + -ation. Psychological use is from 1908. Of the three works now on our table, the two which we have placed first have these laudable objects in view; an improvement on the former versions of the Psalms as compositions, and the rationalization, if we may so speak, of our Church psalmody. ["The British Critic," London, Jan.-June 1825]
Example
- 1. Along with the erp system and the enterprise rationalization , business management will be able obviously to enhance .
- 2. I 'm deeply skeptical about any sort of rationalization of death .
- 3. The potential list of policies to boost investment goes on and on , including targeted infrastructure spending , as I described in my previous atlantic piece , and perhaps a rationalization of the corporate tax code .
- 4. A trade union shall organize workers to launch socialist labour emulation campaigns , develop mass rationalization proposals , technological reform and technological cooperation activities , improve work productivity rates and economic performances and develop society 's productive forces .
- 5. And , in that way she was betrayed , you know , whether it was through imperfection on your mother 's part or not , and you have to give yourself permission to feel that way without justification , or without rationalization because you were .