rationalize
US: /ˈɹæʃənəˌɫaɪz/
English Vietnamese dictionary
rationalize /'ræʃnəlaiz/
- ngoại động từ
- hợp lý hoá (một ngành sản xuất)
- giải thích duy lý (tín ngưỡng...) làm cho (hành vi tư tưởng...) phù hợp với lẽ phải
- (toán học) hữu tỷ hoá
- nội động từ
- theo chủ nghĩa duy lý
- hành động suy nghĩ theo chủ nghĩa duy lý
Advanced English dictionary
(BrE also rationalise) + verb
1 to find or try to find a logical reason to explain why sb thinks, behaves, etc. in a way that is difficult to understand: [VN] an attempt to rationalize his violent behaviour [also V]
2 (BrE) to make changes to a business, system, etc. in order to make it more efficient, especially by spending less money: [VN] Twenty workers lost their jobs when the department was rationalized. [also V]
rationalization, rationalisation noun [U, C]: No amount of rationalization could justify his actions. + a need for rationalization of the industry
Thesaurus dictionary
v.
1 make plausible or believable or understandable or acceptable or reasonable, make allowance(s) or excuses for, vindicate, account for, justify, excuse, reason away, explain away:
How can you rationalize taking my car without my permission?
2 think through, reason out; apply logic to, ratiocinate:
He warps the statistics to rationalize his argument. The fundamentalists make no attempt to rationalize their literal interpretation of the Scripture.
