settlement

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noun
Plural noun:
settlements
  1. 1.

    (countable, uncountable)The act of settling.

    settlement of debt

  2. 2.

    (countable, uncountable)The state of being settled.

  3. 3.

    (countable, uncountable)A colony that is newly established; a place or region newly settled.

  4. 4.

    (countable, uncountable)A community of people living together, such as a hamlet, village, town, or city; a populated place.

  5. 5.

    (countable, uncountable)(archaeology) A site where people used to live together in ancient times; an ancient simple kind of village.

  6. 6.

    (countable, uncountable)(architecture) The gradual sinking of a building. Fractures or dislocations caused by settlement.

  7. 7.

    (countable, uncountable)(finance) The delivery of goods by the seller and payment for them by the buyer, under a previously agreed trade or transaction or contract entered into.

  8. 8.

    (countable, uncountable)(law) A disposition of property, or the act of granting it.

  9. 9.

    (countable, uncountable)(law) A settled place of abode; residence; a right growing out of legal residence.

  10. 10.

    (countable, uncountable)(law) A resolution of a dispute.

  11. 11.

    (countable, uncountable)(law) A mutual agreement to end a dispute without resorting to legal proceedings, also known as an out-of-court settlement or settling out of court.

  12. 12.

    (India, countable, historical, uncountable)An estate or district in Anglo-Indian Bengal where, instead of taking a quota of the year's produce, the government took a fixed sum several times a year from the local cultivators.

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arrangementdispositionA resolution of a dispute arrangement, disposition

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