true-up
Put in alignment
True-up is to reconcile or adjust accounts, figures, or estimates to reflect actual amounts.
At year's end, businesses true up their books—correcting discrepancies between projections and reality.
The noun true-up is this reconciliation process: The quarterly true-up showed we'd underestimated expenses.
The term appears frequently in finance, utilities, and contract management.
Restoration of friendly relations
- adjustmentAlteration to improve fit
- settlementResolved dispute or colony
- varianceSpread around the mean
- balanceSteadiness or amount owed
audit · ledger · discrepancy · correction · fiscal · quarterly · annual · close
Correct relative positioning
- plumbExactly vertical or true
- levelHorizontal or uniform position
- squareRhombus with right angles
- straightenMake linear or orderly
adjust · calibrate · framing · measurement · precision · carpenter · shim · joinery
Itemized billing statement
- adjustmentAlteration to improve fit
- paymentFulfilling a financial obligation
- overageAmount beyond expected
- underageBelow legal minimum years
charges · refund · utility · meter · consumption · rate · usage · credit
Restoration of friendly relations
- clauseProvision in agreement
- provisionPreparatory supply or clause
- agreementShared position between parties
- milestoneNotable event marking progress
payment · escrow · holdback · merger · acquisition · compensation · equity · performance
reconciliation
Restoration of friendly relations
- adjustmentAlteration to improve fit
- settlementResolved dispute or colony
- varianceSpread around the mean
balance · audit · ledger · discrepancy · correction · fiscal · quarterly · annual · close · books
alignment
Correct relative positioning
straighten · adjust · calibrate · framing · measurement · precision · carpenter · shim · joinery · tolerance
invoice
Itemized billing statement
- adjustmentAlteration to improve fit
- paymentFulfilling a financial obligation
- overageAmount beyond expected
underage · charges · refund · utility · meter · consumption · rate · usage · credit · debit
reconciliation
Restoration of friendly relations
- clauseProvision in agreement
- provisionPreparatory supply or clause
- agreementShared position between parties
milestone · payment · escrow · holdback · merger · acquisition · compensation · equity · performance · contingent
- accountingbookkeeping, ledger, balance sheet, general ledger, accounts payable
- incentive paycash bonus, performance bonus, merit bonus, sales commission, commission structure
true-upestimate
Informed guess at quantity
approximation · rough estimate · guesstimate · ballpark figure · projection
true, up, truly, truth, truthful, truthfully, truthfulness, untrue, truer