Usually means: Repairing relationships after disagreements, conflicts.
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  1. fence-mending: Merriam-Webster
  2. fence-mending: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. fence-mending, fence-mending: Collins English Dictionary
  4. fence-mending: Wordnik
  5. fence-mending: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. fence-mending: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  7. fence-mending: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. fence-mending: Dictionary.com
  9. fence-mending: TheFreeDictionary.com
  10. fence-mending: Wiktionary

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noun:  (politics) Social assistance given to a community in order to retain popularity with the electorate.
noun:  Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see fence, mend.

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