Reconcile vs Restation - What's the difference?
reconcile | restation |
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.
To assign (military personnel) to a different area.
*{{quote-news, year=2009, date=May 10, author=, title=Christine Todd, Jeffrey McLean, work=New York Times
, passage=“She will hopefully be restationed somewhere near Virginia by next year,” Lieutenant McLean said. }}
As verbs the difference between reconcile and restation
is that reconcile is to restore a friendly relationship; to bring back to harmony while restation is to assign (military personnel) to a different area.reconcile
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.
Derived terms
* reconciliationrestation
English
Verb
(en verb)citation