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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

• FENCE MENDING (noun)

Sense 1

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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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