reconciliation

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   getting two things to correspond

   The accountant used double entry bookkeeping for the the reconciliation of the checkbook and the bank statements.

2. 2
   noun

   The re-establishment of friendly relations; conciliation, rapprochement.

   He longed for reconciliation with his estranged father, but painful memories made him feel unready to do so.

3. 3
   noun

   The process of systemically atoning for the crimes and broken promises that a nation has historically committed against indigenous people.

   In order to redress the legacy of residential schools and advance the process of Canadian reconciliation, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission makes the following calls to action.

4. 4
   noun

   the reestablishing of cordial relations

5. 5
   noun

   The process of comparing and resolving apparent differences between sets of accounting records, or between accounting records and bank statements, receipts, etc.

6. 6
   noun

   Religious senses.

7. 7
   noun

   A special parliamentary procedure of the United States Congress to expedite the passage of certain federal budget legislation in the Senate, overriding the Senate's filibuster rules.

Etymology

From Middle English reconciliacioun (“act of reconciling; state of accord or harmony;”) [and other forms], from Anglo-Norman reconciliaciun, reconsiliacion, reconsiliaciun, and Middle French reconciliation, reconsiliacion, reconsiliation (“act of reconciling; result of this act; act of bringing about agreement or harmony; reconsecration of a desecrated place”) (modern French réconciliation), and from their Latin etymon reconciliātiō (“reinstatement, renewal, restoration; reconciliation”), from reconciliāre + -tiō.