verb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪
Negotiators were called in to conciliate the warring factions.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪
After 1951 Winston Churchill and his Conservative successors protected the welfare state, maintained full employment, and conciliated the trade unions.
▪
Compromise Bargaining, negotiating, conciliating.
▪
Do not forget Mr Hurd's record for soothing nerves and conciliating Tory antagonists.
▪
He was aware of the need to conciliate , to plead, to attempt to explain.
▪
It was most odd the way this woman had immediately made her feel as though she had to be conciliating.
▪
The king, however, also had reason to conciliate the Stanleys and in 1472 the matter went to arbitration.
▪
We would also suggest an attempt to conciliate Fred by returning the responsibility for special functions to him.