Arbitrate vs Reconcile - What's the difference?
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To make a judgment (on a dispute) as an arbitrator or arbiter
* Shakespeare
To submit (a dispute) to such judgment
(mathematics, rare) To assign an object an arbitrary value, or otherwise arbitrarily determine it
To restore a friendly relationship; to bring back to harmony.
To make things compatible or consistent.
* Alexander Pope
* John Locke
To make the net difference in credits and debits of a financial account agree with the balance.
As verbs the difference between arbitrate and reconcile
is that arbitrate is to make a judgment (on a dispute) as an arbitrator or arbiter while reconcile is to restore a friendly relationship; to bring back to harmony.arbitrate
English
Verb
- to arbitrate a disputed case
- There shall your swords and lances arbitrate / The swelling difference of your settled hate.
- We wish to show f is continuous. Arbitrate epsilon greater than zero...
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English
(reconciliation)Verb
(reconcil)- to reconcile people who have quarrelled
- to reconcile differences
- Some figures monstrous and misshaped appear, / Considered singly, or beheld too near; / Which, but proportioned to their light or place, / Due distance reconciles to form and grace.
- The great men among the ancients understood how to reconcile manual labour with affairs of state.