reconciliation

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

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

(Christianity) The end of estrangement between a human and God as a result of atonement.

(Christianity) The reconsecration of a desecrated church or other holy site.

(Christianity, chiefly Roman Catholicism) Admission of a person to membership of the church, or readmission after the person has previously left the church.

(Roman Catholicism) Short for sacrament of reconciliation (“a sacrament (sacred ritual) also called confession, involving contrition by a person, confessing sins to a priest, penance performed by the person, and absolution granted by the priest”).

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