adjustment vs reconciliation

adjustment

noun
  • The settling or balancing of a financial account 

  • The assessment, by an insurance company, of a claim; the settlement of such a claim 

  • The result of adjusting something; a small change; a minor correction; a modification or alteration 

  • The behavioural process of balancing conflicting needs, or needs against obstacles in the environment. 

  • The action of adjusting something 

reconciliation

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

  • The reconsecration of a desecrated church or other holy site. 

  • Admission of a person to membership of the church, or readmission after the person has previously left the church. 

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

  • The end of estrangement between a human and God as a result of atonement. 

  • The process of systemically atoning for the crimes and broken promises that a nation has historically committed against indigenous people. 

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