Rapprochement meaning

rä'prôsh-mäɴ'
An establishing, or esp. a restoring, of harmony and friendly relations.
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A reestablishing of cordial relations, as between two countries.
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The state of reconciliation or of cordial relations.
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The reestablishment of cordial relations, particularly between two countries; a reconciliation.

It was the Nixon administration that saw the rapprochement between the United States and China.

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Origin of rapprochement

  • French from rapprocher to bring together re- re- approcher to approach (from Old French aprochier approach)
    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
  • Borrowing from French rapprochement.
    From Wiktionary

Rapprochement Sentence Examples

  • After the second of these insurrections, Bethlen attempted a rapprochement with the court of Vienna on the basis of an alliance against the Turks and his own marriage with one of the Austrian archduchesses; but Ferdinand had no confidence in him and rejected his overtures.

  • The one bright side of this gloomy and sordid period was the rapprochement between the Scandinavian kingdoms during the revolutionary wars.

  • But no rapprochement was effected, and reconciliation became daily more and more difficult.

  • During his ministry he developed the rapprochement of France with Russia - visiting St Petersburg with the president, Felix Faure - and sent expeditions to delimit the French colonies in Africa.

  • In pursuance of its practical policy of rapprochement and economic cooperation in the reconstruction of central Europe in particular and of Europe in general, Czechoslovakia concluded a series of commercial treaties with her various neighbours and with the Allied Powers.

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