settlement

Plural: settlements

Noun

• a body of people who settle far from home but maintain ties with their homeland; inhabitants remain nationals of their home state but are not literally under the home state's system of government
• a community of people smaller than a town
• a conclusive resolution of a matter and disposition of it
• the act of colonizing; the establishment of colonies
• something settled or resolved; the outcome of decision making
  • "they finally reached a settlement with the union"
• an area where a group of families live together
• termination of a business operation by using its assets to discharge its liabilities
• The act of settling.
• The state of being settled.
• A colony that is newly established; a place or region newly settled (even in past times).
• A community of people living together, such as a hamlet, village, town, or city; a populated place.
• A site where people used to live together in ancient times; an ancient simple kind of village.
• The gradual sinking of a building. Fractures or dislocations caused by settlement.
• 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.
• A disposition of property, or the act of granting it.
• A settled place of abode; residence; a right growing out of legal residence.
• A resolution of a dispute.
• 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.
• 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.

Examples

• settlement of debt

Synonyms

closure, colonisation, colonization, colony, liquidation, resolution, small town, village, arrangement, disposition, settlement

Related Words

municipality, settler