FENCE MENDING

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Social action to improve poor relations (especially in politics)

Example:

they moved forward from a period of fence mending to substantive changes in the country

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("fence mending" is a kind of...):

social action (a social policy of reform (especially socioeconomic reform))

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