English-French translations for reconciliation

• réconciliation
  Sans réconciliation nationale, aucune réconciliation avec l'Europe n'est possible. Without national reconciliation, reconciliation with Europe is not possible.
  La sécurité passe d'abord par la réconciliation. Security begins with reconciliation.
  Il faut œuvrer à la réconciliation nationale. We must strive for national reconciliation.
• raccommodement
• rapprochement
  Notre continent est ainsi devenu un lieu, non pas de division, mais de similarités et de rapprochements. Our continent has thus become a place not of division, but of similarities and reconciliations.
  Il était donc logique que nos propositions se fondent sur une harmonisation, un rapprochement et non sur une uniformisation. It was therefore logical for our proposals to be based on harmonization, on reconciliation, rather than on standardization.
  À mon sens, ce n'est pas ainsi que l'on peut concevoir une politique de développement et procéder à l'indispensable et urgent rapprochement des politiques nationales en la matière. This is not the way, in my view, to formulate development policy nor is it the way to bring about the urgently needed reconciliation of national development policies.

Definition of reconciliation

• The reestablishment of friendly relations; conciliation or rapprochement
• The end of estrangement between a human and God as a result of the process of atonement
• Process of matching, comparing and agreeing figures from accounting records against those presented on a bank statement, including list of explainable differences

Examples

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

Related words

• reconciliator
• irreconciliable
• sacrament of reconciliation