reconciliation

See also réconciliation

English

Wikipedia

Etymology

From Latin reconciliatio (“a re-establishing, reinstatement, restoration, renewal, a reconciling, reconciliation”), from reconciliare

Noun

reconciliation (plural reconciliations)

1. The reestablishment of friendly relations; conciliation or rapprochement.

   He longed for reconciliation with his estranged father, but too many painful memories kept him from making contact again.

2. A Roman Catholic sacrament involving contrition, confession, punishment and absolution; penance.
3. (accounting) Process of matching and comparing figures from accounting records against those presented on a bank statement.

Translations

the reestablishment of friendly relations; conciliation or rapprochement

Chinese: Mandarin: 和解 (cmn) (héjiě) Czech: usmíření (cs) n. Danish: forsoning Finnish: sopiminen (fi), sovinnonteko (fi) French: réconciliation (fr) f. German: Versöhnung (de) f., Aussöhnung (de) f. Italian: ravvicinamento (it) m.

Japanese: 和解 (ja) (わかい, wakai) Korean: 화해 (ko) (hwahae) (和解 (ko)) Polish: zgoda (pl) f., pojednanie (pl) n. Romanian: reconciliere (ro) f., împăcare (ro) f. Russian: примирение (ru) (primirénije) n., сближение (ru) (sbližénije) n. Spanish: reconciliación (es) f. Urdu: مفاہمت  (ur) ((mufāhimat)) f. Vietnamese: hoà giải (vi) (和解 (vi))

a Roman Catholic sacrament involving contrition, confession, punishment and absolution; penance

Czech: svátost smíření (cs) f., zpověď (cs) f.

Polish: rekoncyliacja f.

Process of matching and comparing figures from accounting records against those presented on a bank statement

French: réconciliation (fr) f., rapprochement (fr) m. German: Abgleich (de) m. Italian: riconciliazione (it) f.

Norwegian: avstemming m. Russian: согласование (ru) (soglasovánije) n., сверка (ru) (svérka) f.