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FENCE MENDING
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Dictionary entry overview: What does fence mending mean?
• FENCE MENDING (noun)
The noun FENCE MENDING has 1 sense:
1. social action to improve poor relations (especially in politics)
Familiarity information: FENCE MENDING used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Social action to improve poor relations (especially in politics)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Context example:
they moved forward from a period of fence mending to substantive changes in the country
Hypernyms ("fence mending" is a kind of...):
social action (a social policy of reform (especially socioeconomic reform))
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