Meaning & use
reconciliate
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To restore friendly relations between people or groups, or to make two conflicting ideas or accounts consistent with each other.
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The two nations worked for years to reconciliate after the war.
Accountants must reconciliate the ledger figures with the bank statements each month.
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A rarer, more formal variant of reconcile, used interchangeably but far less frequently in modern English.
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