Usually means: Justifying actions with logical reasons.
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General (20 matching dictionaries)
  1. rationalization: Merriam-Webster
  2. rationalization: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. rationalization: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. rationalization: Collins English Dictionary
  5. rationalization: Vocabulary.com
  6. Rationalization, rationalization: Wordnik
  7. rationalization: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. rationalization: Wiktionary
  9. rationalization: Dictionary.com
  10. Rationalization (economics), Rationalization (making excuses), Rationalization (psychology), Rationalization (sociology), Rationalization: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. Rationalization: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. rationalization: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  13. rationalization: Rhymezone
  14. Rationalization: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. rationalization: FreeDictionary.org
  16. rationalization: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. rationalization: TheFreeDictionary.com
  18. rationalization: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary

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  1. Rationalization: Management Dictionary
  2. Rationalization: Investopedia
  3. rationalization: Legal dictionary
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Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. rationalization: Encyclopedia

Medicine (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. rationalization: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
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  7. rationalization: Medical dictionary

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Religion (2 matching dictionaries)
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(Note: See rationalize as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  The process or result of rationalizing.
noun:  A statement of one's motives, or of the causes of some event.
noun:  (economics) The reorganization of a company or organization in order to improve its efficiency through the reallocation of resources and changes in its workforce.
noun:  (psychiatry) The concealment of true motivation in some non-threatening way.
noun:  (mathematics) The simplification of an expression without changing its value.

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