Synonym: principle. Similar words: rationalization, multinational corporation, rational, rationally, operational, irrational, rationalism, rationality. Meaning: [‚ræʃə'næl /-'nɑːl] 
n. (law) an explanation of the fundamental reasons (especially an explanation of the working of some device in terms of laws of nature).
n. (law) an explanation of the fundamental reasons (especially an explanation of the working of some device in terms of laws of nature). 
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1. The rationale behind the changes is not at all evident.
2. What is the rationale behind these new exams?
3. The plan was criticized for its lack of rationale.
4. I don't understand the rationale behind the council's housing policy.
5. However, the rationale for such in-itiatives is not, of course, solely economic.
6. The rationale for using this teaching method is to encourage student confidence.
7. What is the rationale of ability-to-pay taxation?
8. Everyone missed the artistic rationale for my nude scene.
9. The rationale behind this is twofold.
10. This interventionist approach stands uneasily alongside the free-market rationale.
11. The rationale for engagement is different in each case.
12. This could be a rationale for the future.
13. Sometimes the tie was purely economic in rationale.
14. The political rationale is not clear.
15. An unjust delay becomes another rationale for injustice.
16. The rationale for an external currency market is differential national regulation.
17. Nor does it provide a rationale for people with questionable motives to vent their hostilities or express their idiosyncrasies.
18. The rationale behind this staggeringly convenient interpretation seems to run as follows.
19. This was a particularly flimsy sounding rationale coming from Martinez, who took such a dim view of his students' prospects.
20. Opening the seminar, outlined the rationale of the development programme and the approach being adopted.
21. The economic rationale, in terms of economic efficiency, was agreed in terms of increasing competitiveness, rather than the change of ownership.
22. The Republicans' rationale is that it is wrong to pay students to do the kind things they should be doing anyway.
23. They foretell events, providing a sort of rationale for the extraordinary exploits, the failures and the tragedy of Gilgamesh.
24. We can distinguish between two kinds of rationale or emphasis in general degree courses: the general and the generic.
25. While any analytic appraisal or reflexivity on this rationale is never given much credibility in the structures of significance.
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26. The rationale for this approach is important since we see it repeated in country after country.
27. Recommended changes had to be substantiated by explicit statements of rationale, supported by the systematic review of relevant empirical data.
28. I understand that, because the proposals were so ludicrous, there was no rationale to justify them.
29. It reveals as mythical much of the past theological rationale for disunity.
30. They should not use the excuse of a different technology as a rationale for imposing different standards on speech.
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