1Restore friendly relations between.

1. 1.1 Cause to coexist in harmony; make or show to be compatible.
   a landscape in which inner and outer vision were reconciled

   you may have to adjust your ideal to reconcile it with reality

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   • How can this fact be reconciled with the high ticket price?
   • He knew that absolute creeds, whatever their ideal, cannot be reconciled with differing outlooks.
   • The dilemma is: how can the need to protect the public from an unprecedented level of threat be reconciled with the liberties and rights that characterise our society?
   • Can British nuclear disarmament be safely reconciled with the unpredictable nature of international relations?
   • It is where women can reconcile being feminine and being unique.
   • The obvious question, however, is how the premiers' commitment to provincial equality can be reconciled with their recognition of Quebec's unique status.
   • I'd like to see exactly how that assertion can be reconciled with the original statement.
   • What they are doing is testing whether or not a particular creation story can be reconciled with a scientific model.
   • And what happens when the need for profit simply cannot be reconciled with social and environmental justice?
   • Educators at all levels need to reconcile rigor and creativity, and to treat them as compatible, coexisting dimensions of intelligence.
   • Many centuries later, religious scholars had found that some of the dates of Roman history in the early Christian era cannot be reconciled with what has been recorded in New Testament writings.
   • Compatibilist philosophies seek to reconcile free will and determinism in a modern time.
   • Can affirmative action be reconciled with liberal individualism?
   • For liberals, such obstructionism proved yet again that the Catholic tradition could never truly be reconciled with secular democracy.
   • Quantum mechanics has not been reconciled with general relativity, but physicists don't say the universe contains contradictions.
   • The agreement also had to be reconciled with the city's new international relations policy which was adopted in 2000.
   • It's a fondness I can't reconcile with any feminist leanings I might have, so I've learned to embrace it as a guilty pleasure.
   • Spencer produced his most challenging work in the struggle to reconcile this religious vision with the reality of the world around him.
   • How can the blacklisting be reconciled with US policy of promoting stability in the region?
   • One thing is that people lie (or maybe it would be better stated that people often answer in ways that cannot be reconciled with reality).

   Synonyms

   make compatible, harmonize, square, make harmonious, synthesize, make congruent, cause to be in agreement, cause to sit easily with, cause to sit happily with
2. 1.2 Make (one account) consistent with another, especially by allowing for transactions begun but not yet completed.
   it is not necessary to reconcile the cost accounts to the financial accounts

   Example sentencesExamples

   • The cash flow statement differs from these other financial statements because it acts as a kind of corporate checkbook that reconciles the other two statements.
   • The Data Processing Center of the Treasury Service reconciles taxes paid with taxpayer liabilities generated in the tax billing process.
   • If it's a bank or credit card statement, reconcile it against your receipts, payments and deposits to ensure that it is spot-on.
   • The results were reconciled and audited by a partner in the accounting firm Ernst & Young.
   • The accounts payable program not only prints checks, reconciles bank accounts and produces expense reports, but it also allows club owners to track bank accounts, cash flow, checks, invoices and vendors.
   • The bank account should be reconciled with the barrister's receipts book.
   • After a trader completes a deal, the back-office staff confirm the trades by phone and also reconcile cash accounts at the end of each day.
   • It is horrible practice to have the teller made responsible for reconciling the accounts, how can one check on one's own work?
   • These amounts are inconsistent with the amounts shown on Mr. Smith's income tax returns and I was not provided with an explanation that allows me to reconcile this.
   • This exercise allows you to reconcile the total amount of PAYE entered onto the certificates with the annualised PAYE paid over to the Receiver of Revenue.
   • They say there appears to have been collusion internally between him and the administrative back office responsible for reconciling his transactions.
   • For travel transactions, cardholders are responsible for reconciling their statements each month and filing vouchers within 15-30 days of travel.
   • The final bill, he added, would only be known when all the accounts had been reconciled.
   • The large differences under these two items came to the fore while reconciling the accounts during the last quarter of the year 2001-02, he adds.
   • Analyzing how the cash flow statement reconciles profits with actual cash flows is also critical.
   • Even the most creative of accountants would have difficulty reconciling these uncertain credits and debits.
   • The disbursement of funds from this account would be reconciled on a quarterly basis.
   • Also, only 26 per cent of employers polled required double signatories on checks and only 11 per cent ever change staff who reconcile their bank accounts.
3. 1.3 Settle (a disagreement)
   advice on how to reconcile the conflict

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   • Can that inherent conflict be reconciled successfully?
   • We propose a new dynamic model in order to help reconcile the long-standing controversy in Central Asia.
   • Ryaas, a former director general of regional autonomy, suggested that the two feuding parties reconcile their differences in order to reduce the political tension.
   • The new government will be pressed to reconcile religious conflicts and work out a policy that is considerate of the poor and mitigates the ill effects of economic growth.
   • But it would appear that even death has failed to reconcile the feud between her and her son, Richard, who was noticeably absent from his mother's funeral last Saturday.
   • Two central strategies were used to reconcile this conflict.
   • Thus he had a particular reason for wanting to reconcile the historic conflict between the two countries.
   • But, this time, he was unable to reconcile internecine squabbles.
   • Then, through explaining and defending their views to their group, those conflicts can be reconciled.
   • He was a quiet person, not overly ambitious but always eager to reconcile disputes between opposing parties.
   • There is no formula for reconciling this conflict of principles and no easy answer.
   • The company bosses have said it is ‘regrettable’ that a rail union official did not attend a meeting staged to help reconcile their long-running dispute over pay.
   • Time has to be spent by managers coping with and reconciling the conflicts as best they can.
   • And we certainly cannot reconcile the conflicts about affirmative action preferences without answering these questions.
   • And they make no attempt to reconcile that conflict, tailoring their local appeal to the lowest common denominator in each area.
   • Although the dispute was peacefully reconciled, the men carried concealed knives and guns under their clothes should the other side prove uncooperative.
   • China's leaders believed that immediate democratization, instead of serving to reconcile the conflicts of interest created by economic change, might instead exacerbate them.
   • But most tend to reconcile conflicts through heart-to-heart talks.

   Synonyms

   reunite, bring together (again), bring back together again, restore friendly relations between, restore harmony between, make peace between, resolve differences between, bring to terms

   settle, resolve, patch up, sort out, smooth over, iron out, put to rights, mend, remedy, heal, cure, rectify
4. 1.4reconcile someone to Make someone accept (a disagreeable or unwelcome thing)
   he could not reconcile himself to the thought of his mother stocking shelves

   he was reconciled to leaving

   Example sentencesExamples

   • Moments like that reconcile me to the existence of these ‘explorers’.
   • It reconciles her to such things as tennis tournaments (which is important for her, because she has an endorsement contract of 50 million bucks).
   • At a time when Britons work the longest hours in Europe, self-satisfied middle class attempts to reconcile us to our economic obligations have a meaning that is more than comic.
   • He said in an interview recently, ‘I have another job and I am reconciled to the fact that, whether the record sells or not, I'm just going to have fun.’
   • I wrote here about the ways in which marriage reconciles us to time and mortality.
   • It transcends transience and therefore reconciles us to the most fundamental condition of our existence.
   • The point of religion, he used to say, was to reconcile us to the hollowness, the futility, the nothingness of life.
   • This kind of thing can reconcile you to camping.
   • So, on the whole, I am reconciled to the squirrels taking my walnuts, the rabbits eating my grass, the deer eating my saplings, and the herons eating my fish.
   • At 47, with his children reaching their late teens, some believe Ryan is reconciled to sticking with his lucrative radio day job, with the occasional television project on the side.
   • The act of returning does, however, offer some resolution, in that Marie-Noëlle is reconciled to the fact that the truth is unknowable.
   • Representatives of the licensed trade, previously regarded as the most implacable opponents of the ban, indicated that they were reconciled to its eventual implementation.
   • Not very confident of India accepting accession, he was reconciled to a state of permanent political exile in India.

   Synonyms

   accept, come to accept, resign oneself to, come to terms with, learn to live with, get used to, make the best of, submit to, accommodate oneself to, adjust oneself to, become accustomed to, acclimatize oneself to