English-Portuguese translations for reconciliation

• reconciliação
  Na ausência de uma reconciliação nacional, a reconciliação com a Europa também não será viável. Without national reconciliation, reconciliation with Europe is not possible.
  A segurança começa com a reconciliação. Security begins with reconciliation.
  Temos de pugnar pela reconciliação nacional. We must strive for national reconciliation.
• conciliação
  A conciliação continua a ser a questão central. Reconciliation remains the central issue here.
  Além disso, os homens devem também ser plenamente envolvidos nas medidas de conciliação.Men must also be fully involved in reconciliation measures.
  A directiva relativa aos resíduos mineiros está na fase de conciliação. The Mining Waste Directive is currently in the reconciliation phase.

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