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rationalize

to rationalize
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  • rationaliseren
  • structure and run according to rational or scientific principles in order to achieve desired results
"We rationalized the factory's production and raised profits"

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to rationalize
Werkwoord
    • think rationally; employ logic or reason
    "When one wonders why one is doing certain things, one should rationalize"

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    to rationalize
    Werkwoord
      • remove irrational quantities from
      "This function can be rationalized"

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      to rationalize
      Werkwoord
        • defend, explain, clear away, or make excuses for by reasoning
        "rationalize the child's seemingly crazy behavior"
        "he rationalized his lack of success"

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        to rationalize
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          • weed out unwanted or unnecessary things

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          1. He tried to rationalize his foolish actions.
          2. Globalization has gone mad: why transport Spanish cucumbers to exterminate the Northern Germans when half of them live in Mallorca? We need to rationalize all of that and adopt a more solid method of bacterial decontamination.
          3. Law 218/1990 had enacted a special scheme to facilitate the transfer of banking assets or branches of banking businesses held by the local public entities to newly created or existing private banks, with a view to rationalize the exercise of the banking activity in Italy (Article 1 of Law 218/1990).
          4. The above fragile financial situation was in spite of the increased consumption during the period between 2006 and 2008, as described in recital (60) above, and the efforts of the Union industry to rationalize production costs, as described in recitals (75) and (76) above.