fence mending

1. 1.

   social action to improve poor relations (especially in politics)

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

   Broadersocial action

Questions about fence mending

What does fence mending mean?

fence mending means "social action to improve poor relations (especially in politics)".

Is fence mending a common word?

fence mending is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.