reconcile
Restore broken harmony
Reconcile means to restore harmony between people or things in conflict.
Two estranged friends reconcile when they make peace.
You reconcile differing accounts by bringing them into agreement: I can't reconcile what you're telling me with what I saw.
In accounting, to reconcile is to verify that records match: reconcile the bank statement.
To reconcile yourself to something is to accept what you cannot change: She reconciled herself to a life without children.
Releasing resentment toward offenders
- reunionGathering after separation
- amendsCompensation for wrongdoing
- estrangementEmotional separation between people
- healingRestoration of health
apology · mending · rapprochement · restoration · family · reconnection · bygones · olive-branch
Intervention to resolve conflict
- negotiationDiscussion seeking mutual accord
- settlementResolved dispute or colony
- truceAgreed halt to hostilities
- peaceFreedom from disturbance
arbitration · ceasefire · resolution · diplomacy · conciliation · accord · agreement · détente
Agreement through mutual sacrifice
- middle-groundIntermediate position between extremes
- concessionYielding a point
- harmonizeBring into agreement
- bridgeStructure spanning an obstacle
accommodate · give-and-take · adjustment · mutual · trade-off · agreement · flexibility · tolerance
Consent to receive
- integrateCombine into unified whole
- harmonizeBring into agreement
- alignArrange in a row
- rationalizeExplain with invented reasons
square · justify · accommodate · coexist · philosophy · faith · contradiction · paradox
Financial record book
- debitsRecorded account reductions
- creditsUnits toward graduation
- bookkeepingRecording financial transactions systematically
- accountingMaintaining financial records
tally · financials · balancing · discrepancies · audit · statements · invoicing · transactions
forgiveness
Releasing resentment toward offenders
- reunionGathering after separation
- amendsCompensation for wrongdoing
- estrangementEmotional separation between people
healing · apology · mending · rapprochement · restoration · family · reconnection · bygones · olive-branch · reparation
mediation
Intervention to resolve conflict
- negotiationDiscussion seeking mutual accord
- settlementResolved dispute or colony
- truceAgreed halt to hostilities
peace · arbitration · ceasefire · resolution · diplomacy · conciliation · accord · agreement · détente · peacemaking
compromise
Agreement through mutual sacrifice
- middle-groundIntermediate position between extremes
- concessionYielding a point
- harmonizeBring into agreement
bridge · accommodate · give-and-take · adjustment · mutual · trade-off · agreement · flexibility · tolerance · cooperation
accept
Consent to receive
rationalize · square · justify · accommodate · coexist · philosophy · faith · contradiction · paradox · worldview
ledger
Financial record book
- debitsRecorded account reductions
- creditsUnits toward graduation
- bookkeepingRecording financial transactions systematically
accounting · tally · financials · balancing · discrepancies · audit · statements · invoicing · transactions · adjustments
- calmingcalm, calm down, soothe, relax, pacify
- peacemakingnegotiation, mediation, peace agreement, mediate, pacifying
- reconciliationmaking up, make up, harmony, peace, unity
- social actionsinteract, communicate, connect, socialize, engage
- verifycheck, confirm, verify, validate, authenticate
- clearing the airapology, honesty, forgiveness, truth, discussion
- truth and reconciliationPost-conflict healing through acknowledgment
- reconciliation effortsActions to restore accord
- reconciliation processFormal steps restoring harmony
- racial reconciliationProcess of healing ethnic divisions
- national reconciliationRestoring harmony within a state
- reconciliation talksDiscussions to resolve conflict
reconciliation, irreconcilable, reconciled, reconcilable, reconciling, reconciler, reconciles, reconciliations, reconcilers