harmonization

harmonize | American Dictionary

harmonize
verb[ I/T ]
us/ˈhɑr·məˌnɑɪz/

harmonizeverb[I/T] (MUSIC)

to add a harmony to a tune:
[ I ]I can sing a tune, but I find it hard to harmonize.

harmonizeverb[I/T] (BRING INTO AGREEMENT)

to bring ideas, feelings, or actions into agreement, or to be a pleasing combination of different parts:
[ T ]We need to harmonize the different approaches into a unified plan.

harmonize | Business English

harmonize
verb[ T ]
(UK alsoharmonise)uk /ˈhɑːmənaɪz/us
to make systems or laws the same or similar in different companies, countries, etc. so that they can work together more easily:
Initiatives to harmonize world tax systems have been met with much resistance.
to successfully combine different activities, systems, ideas, etc.:
Flexible working arrangements can make a big difference in successfully harmonizing responsibilities at work and at home.

Examples of harmonize

harmonize
A particular language harmonizes these conflicting constraints by prioritizing (ranking) them.
The agent's efforts towards this goal would have the effect of harmonizing his discounting of different alternatives.
In the former, the passage is compressed and eventually becomes harmonized, while in the latter, the motif is extended in various ways.
Financing is not yet harmonized; statistics on utilization patterns of health services are lacking, and there are multiple providers and multiple payers.
Environmental quality standards for both the air and water are typically harmonized within individual countries.
What are the novel avenues by which formal and informal sources of support to family members can be harmonized?
I then discuss the need for internationally harmonized regulations and a stronger focus on patient perspectives in future discussions on biobank ethics.
Our expectation was that harmonizing vowels would occur more often in morpheme-initial position in functional than lexical items.
Without any real "content" of its own, the state harmonizes the plural institutions of a historically determined community.
Thus, this study indicates how recent approaches to gender can be harmonized with quantitative sociolinguistic research methods.
Next, an international agreement is concluded which totally harmonizes the product standard.
If standards are totally harmonized from the beginning, we cannot empirically compare the level of the standards to the situation in which there was competition before cooperation.
In order to be of use this data must be harmonized.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
We must begin by harmonizing quite distinct areas of judicial cooperation.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
I hope that interest rates will be harmonized as time goes on.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
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