reconciliation
/'rekənsailmənt/ Cách viết khác : (reconciliation) /,rekəsili'eiʃn/
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He carefully performed the reconciliation of his checkbook with the bank statement.
Definition
- Noun:
- The act of restoring friendly relations between people or groups after a disagreement or conflict: This is the most common meaning, referring to the process of making peace or becoming friendly again.
- The action of making one view, belief, or account consistent with another: This meaning involves removing apparent differences or contradictions between two statements, ideas, or sets of data.
Examples of Usage
- Restoring friendly relations:
- The couple sought reconciliation after their argument.
- The treaty led to a reconciliation between the two warring nations.
- Making accounts or beliefs consistent:
- The accountant performed a reconciliation of the company's financial records.
- There is a need for reconciliation between scientific evidence and traditional beliefs.
Advanced Usage
- "to be beyond reconciliation": describes a situation where a relationship is so damaged that it cannot be repaired.
- After the betrayal, their friendship was beyond reconciliation.
- "a gesture of reconciliation": an action intended to show a desire to end a conflict.
- He offered a handshake as a gesture of reconciliation.
Variants and Related Words
- Reconcile (verb): To restore friendly relations or to make compatible.
- It took years for them to reconcile their differences.
- Reconcilable (adjective): Capable of being made consistent or brought into harmony.
- The two theories are not easily reconcilable.
- Reconciliatory (adjective): Intended to restore peace or friendship.
- She made a reconciliatory speech to calm the tensions.
Synonyms
- Rapprochement: The establishment or renewal of harmonious relations.
- Conciliation: The action of stopping someone from being angry by being kind or forgiving.
- Settlement: An official agreement intended to resolve a dispute.
Related Phrases
- Reconciliation process: The series of steps taken to restore a relationship or resolve differences.
- The community began a long and difficult reconciliation process after the civil war.
- Bank reconciliation: The process of ensuring that a company's or individual's financial records match the bank's statement.
- Doing a monthly bank reconciliation helps prevent accounting errors.
Related Idioms
- "Bury the hatchet": To make peace; to end a quarrel or conflict. (This idiom is a conceptual synonym for the act of reconciliation.)
- After years of feuding, the two families finally decided to bury the hatchet.
He carefully performed the reconciliation of his checkbook with the bank statement.
Noun
- getting two things to correspond
- the reconciliation of his checkbook and the bank statement
- the reestablishing of cordial relations