Meaning & use
reconciling
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Restoring friendly relations between people after a disagreement, or making two seemingly conflicting things compatible.
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The siblings spent the holiday reconciling after years of not speaking.
The accountant spent the afternoon reconciling the company's bank statements with its records.
A note on using this word
Used both for repairing personal relationships and for matching financial records or conflicting facts.
Words with a similar meaning
resolvingharmonizing
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Words with an opposite meaning
estranging
Another way to use it
2. verb
Making financial accounts or records consistent with each other.
She finished reconciling the ledger before the audit.
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