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squaring things
noun as in reparation
noun as in restitution
Example Sentences
Pelletier walled off some rooms — “I like squaring things off; it makes a home bigger in some ways” — but worked hard to carve out a true master suite and a centrally located family room.
After squaring things at the hotel, and destroying what was dangerous in our baggage, we trekked for the Priok just as dusk was falling.
The first rubber in the Europe-Africa Zone Group II tie went with the rankings as the Tunisian No1 Malek Jaziri defeated Jamie Baker 4-6, 6-3, 7-5, 6-2 but James Ward wasted little time squaring things up as he thrashed Sami Ghorbel 6-0, 6-2, 6-0.
New Rochelle's Mayor Stanley W. Church, squaring things 139 years late, observed that the author of The Rights of Man had done more than any other man to "make this a free and independent nation."
We'd like to do our little bit towards squaring things up.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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