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Settlement   /sˈɛtəlmənt/   Listen
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.  Synonym: colony.
2.
A community of people smaller than a town.  Synonyms: small town, village.
3.
A conclusive resolution of a matter and disposition of it.
4.
The act of colonizing; the establishment of colonies.  Synonyms: colonisation, colonization.
5.
Something settled or resolved; the outcome of decision making.  Synonyms: closure, resolution.  "They never did achieve a final resolution of their differences" , "He needed to grieve before he could achieve a sense of 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.  Synonym: liquidation.



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"Settlement" Quotes from Famous Books



... the grim old collector who goes dunning for the abused wife, and Time finally forced a settlement ...
— Second Book of Tales • Eugene Field
... the occidental idea of a market price. With all their cunning as traders, they respect learning, prize manual skill, possess a fine artistic sense, and are law-abiding. The Armenians especially are eager to become American citizens. Since the settlement of the Northwestern lands, many thousands of Scandinavians and Finns have flocked to the cities, where they are usually employed as ...
— Our Foreigners - A Chronicle of Americans in the Making • Samuel P. Orth
... morning of the twenty-third of November, 1850, he was conscious of a change in its moral atmosphere since the preceding night. Two or three men, conversing earnestly together, ceased as he approached, and exchanged significant glances. There was a Sabbath lull in the air, which, in a settlement unused ...
— Short Stories for English Courses • Various (Rosa M. R. Mikels ed.)
... about the African settlement this morning, at the hotel, and we went down there, right after dinner. We went into two or three of the houses and talked to the people, and they all told us the same thing, and one woman took us to ...
— A Jolly Fellowship • Frank R. Stockton
... and there had been no division of property or allotment of land among the colonists. Under the new regime land was held in severalty, and the spur of individual interest began at once to improve the condition of the settlement. The character of the colonists was also gradually improving. They had not been of a sort to fulfill the earnest desire of the London promoter's to spread vital piety in the New World. A zealous defense of Virginia and Maryland, ...
— Widger's Quotations of Charles D. Warner • David Widger


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