Dictionary Definition
settlement
Noun
1 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 [syn: colony]
2 a community of people smaller than a town [syn:
village, small
town]
3 a conclusive resolution of a matter and
disposition of it
4 the act of colonizing; the establishment of
colonies; "the British colonization of America" [syn: colonization, colonisation]
5 something settled or resolved; the outcome of
decision making; "the finally reached a settlement with the union";
"they never did achieve a final resolution of their differences";
"he needed to grieve before he could achieve a sense of closure"
[syn: resolution,
closure]
6 an area where a group of families live
together
7 termination of a business operation by using
its assets to discharge its liabilities [syn: liquidation]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
- /ˈset.l.mənt/, /"sEt.l.m@nt/
Etymology
Noun
- The state of being settled.
- A colony newly established; a place or region newly settled.
- 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.
Related terms
Translations
The state of being settled
- Polish: porozumienie , ugoda
(Law): A disposition of property, or the act of
granting it
- Polish: zapisanie
A colony newly established; a place or region
newly settled
- Dutch: nederzetting
- German: Ansiedlung , Siedlung
- Kurdish:
- Polish: osada , osiedle
(Architecture): The gradual sinking of a
building
- Polish: osiadanie
(Law): A settled place of abode; residence; a
right growing out of legal residence
- Polish: zasiedzenie
(finance) The delivery of goods by the seller
and payment for them by the buyer
- Polish: rozliczenie , spłacenie , uregulowanie
Extensive Definition
Settlement may refer to:
- Human
settlement, permanent community where people live
- Israeli settlement, communities inhabited by Israeli Jews in territory that came under Israel's control as a result of the 1967 Six-Day War
- Settlement (closing), as in a real estate closing with transfer of title deed to the buyer
- Settlement (finance), the process of exchanging the consideration for financial instruments once a transaction has been executed
- Settlement (structural), the gradual distortions created in a structure
- Consolidation (soil), settlement in soil
- Settlement (litigation), an agreement or resolution of a dispute
- Settlement (trust), an instrument creating a trust
- Settlement under the Poor Law, a person's place of origin or later established residence, being the Parish responsible for the person if destitute
See also
- Act of Settlement, various legislation
- Settlement movement, started in Victorian England, concerned with urban poverty
- :Category:Settlements, for articles about various types of human settlements and specific settlements
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
abalienation, abatement of
differences, absolute indication, absolute interest, accommodation, acquitment, acquittal, acquittance, adjustment, affirmation, agreement, alienation, ally, amortization, amortizement, anchorage, appanage, arbitration, archduchy, archdukedom, arrangement, ashram, assignation, assignment, bargain, bargain and sale,
barter, benefit, bequeathal, binder, body, body politic, buffer state,
burden of proof, camp,
captive nation, cash, cash
payment, caste, cession, chieftaincy, chieftainry, choice, city-state, claim, clan, class, clearance, clearing, closing, colonization, colony, common, commonweal, commonwealth, commune, community, composition, composition of
differences, compromise, concession, conclusion, conclusive
evidence, conferment,
conferral, confirmation, consignation, consignment, contingent
interest, conveyance,
conveyancing,
cop-out, country,
county, damning evidence,
deal, debt service,
deciding, decision, deeding, defrayal, defrayment, deliverance, delivery, demise, demonstration, deposit, desertion of principle,
determination,
disbursal, discharge, disposal, disposition, doling out,
domain, dominion, dot, dower, down payment, dowry, duchy, dukedom, earldom, earnest, earnest money, easement, economic class,
elimination,
empeoplement,
empery, empire, encampment, endogamous group,
endowment, enfeoffment, equitable
interest, equity,
establishment,
estate, evasion of
responsibility, exchange, extended family,
family, fixation, foundation, free city,
gens, give-and-take,
giving, giving way, grand
duchy, hamlet, hire
purchase, hire purchase plan, holding, inauguration,
incontrovertible evidence, indisputable evidence, inhabitancy, inhabitation, inhabiting, initiation, installation, installment, installment
plan, interest,
interest payment, investiture, investment, ironclad proof,
jointure, kingdom, kinship group, land, lease and release, legal
jointure, limitation,
liquidation,
lodgment, mandant, mandate, mandated territory,
mandatee, mandatory, marriage portion,
moiety, monthly payments,
mooring, mutual
concession, nation,
nationality,
never-never, nuclear family, occupancy, occupation, onus, onus probandi, order, outpost, part, paying, paying off, paying out,
paying up, payment,
payment in kind, payoff,
peoplement, peopling, percentage, phratria, phratry, phyle, plantation, polis, polity, population, portion, possession, post, power, prepayment, principality, principate, proof, protectorate, province, puppet government,
puppet regime, quarterly payments, quietus, quittance, rapprochement, realm, reconciliation, regular
payments, remittance,
republic, residence, resolution, retirement, right, right of entry, sale, satellite, satisfaction, sealing, selection, seneschalty, setting, settling, showdown, signature, signing, sinking-fund payment,
social class, society,
solemnization,
sovereign nation, spot cash, stabilization, stake, state, strict settlement, subcaste, sultanate, superpower, sure sign,
surrender, terms, territory, thirds, title, toparchia, toparchy, totem, trading, transfer, transference, transmission, transmittal, trust, understanding,
unmistakable sign, use,
vested interest, vesting, village, weekly payments,
working-out, yielding