rationale

Converse of object

• explain: Sales teams invite the key decision makers from stores to a meeting where they explain the rationale behind the product.
• outline: Go to this article Lesson planning 2 Callum Robertson, BBC English Lesson planning 1 outlined the rationale behind lesson planning.
• underpin: This underpins the rationale for our reserves policy, but would also lead to the charity awarding smaller grants than it would consider desirable.
• examine: Not so, if you examine the rationale for JM's recent acquisitions.
• undermine: The way in which the economic system operates can sometimes undermine the purported rationale for the IPR regime.
• articulate: The problem challenges students to articulate a rationale for ethical decision-making in foreign policy.

Preposition: for

• intervention: Only 48 % of the reports provided an explicit theoretical rationale for the intervention.
• merger: The rationale for the merger of the two exchanges is widely accepted.
• inclusion: The rationale for inclusion of each indicator in the system design is outlined below.
• decision: The rationale for this decision is to allow for further talks to conclude an agreement this week.
• selection: The detailed rationale for the selection of variables to be measured was ( unfortunately ) implicit rather than explicit.
• war: Why the reticence to remind Bush of the rationale for the war?

Adjective modifier

• underlying: There is an underlying rationale for the criteria selected.
• pedagogical: Black presented the philological and pedagogical rationale for the project, while Robson discussed its operating procedure.
• stated: Its stated rationale is to respond to a loophole in the law.
• coherent: The papers and the editorial commentary in this book together comprise the most illuminating and coherent rationale for the Kleinian technique yet published.
• convincing: What they have not done is to suggest a convincing rationale for why this may be so.
• antibiotic: Antibiotic rationale The relative infrequency of the condition means that robust clinical data are not available to guide treatment choices.

Noun used with modifier

• selection: Site selection rationale The single known remaining natural site in the UK has been selected.
• design: Design Space Analysis is an approach to representing design rationale.