Usually means: Justify actions with logical reasoning.
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General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. rationalize: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. rationalize: Merriam-Webster
  3. rationalize: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. rationalize: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. rationalize: Collins English Dictionary
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  8. rationalize: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. rationalize: Wiktionary
  10. rationalize: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. rationalize: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. rationalize: Infoplease Dictionary
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  14. rationalize: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Rationalize: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. rationalize: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
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  18. Rationalize: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. rationalize: FreeDictionary.org
  20. rationalize: Mnemonic Dictionary
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  2. rationalize: Glossary of research economics
  3. rationalize: Legal dictionary
  4. rationalize: Financial dictionary

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  1. rationalize: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. rationalize: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
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  3. rationalize: Medical dictionary

(Note: See rationalizable as well.)

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verb:  To make something rational or more rational.
verb:  To justify a discreditable act, or irrational behaviour.
verb:  (mathematics) To remove radicals, without changing the value of an expression or the roots of an equation.
verb:  To structure something along modern, efficient and systematic lines, or according to scientific principles. This often includes eliminating duplication and grouping like or similar items.

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