Meaning & use
reconciliation
The restoring of friendly relations between people or groups after a disagreement, or the process of making two things consistent with each other.
See it in a sentence
Years after the war, the two nations finally began a slow process of reconciliation.
The accountant performed a reconciliation of the company's records to find the missing funds.
A note on using this word
Reconciliation applies to personal or political relationships and to a technical financial process of matching two sets of records, such as bank statements.
Words with a similar meaning
rapprochementresolution
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Words with an opposite meaning
divisionestrangement
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