Rationalization meaning

"Universal isn't going to go broke if I download movies," is the common rationalization.

Being close enough so that she could attend college while living at home had been their rationalization, but she suspected they were also trying to stimulate her social life.

The rationalization of the story is to be found in Oscar Schade, Die Sage von der heiligen Ursula (Hanover, 1854)+ of which there is a short résumé in S.

It is by their recognition of the duty of living consistently by theory instead of mere impulse or custom, their sense of the new value given to life through this rationalization, and their effort to maintain the easy, calm, unwavering firmness of the Socratic temper, that we recognize both Antisthenes and Aristippus as " Socratic men," in spite of the completeness with which they divided their master's positive doctrine into systems diametrically opposed.

The only cautions are to make sure that products are not overpriced simply because they are marketed as "for seniors", or of lower quality with the rationalization that many elderly people may not realize they are getting a bad deal.