Associations to the word «Settlement»
Noun
- Oblast
- Slovenia
- Pri
- Pomeranian
- Novgorod
- Jamestown
- Domesday
- Urban
- Locality
- Penang
- Voivodeship
- Strait
- Vas
- Settler
- Municipal
- Kenya
- Colonist
- Leningrad
- Convict
- Mennonite
- Colonization
- Malacca
- Greenland
- Excavation
- Jurisdiction
- Ljubljana
- Outpost
- Lawsuit
- Palestinian
- Labrador
- Earthwork
- Dispute
- Hilltop
- Gaza
- Colony
- Shawnee
- Mandal
- Arbitration
- Gatherer
- Inuit
- Aboriginal
- Sarawak
- Municipality
- Litigation
- Newfoundland
- Comanche
- Pottery
- Prehistory
- Aborigine
- Urbanization
- Ob
- Saxon
- Hamlet
Adjective
- Pomeranian
- Neolithic
- Prehistoric
- Penal
- Urban
- Rural
- Archeological
- Administrative
- Slovene
- Outlying
- Israeli
- Incorporated
- Nomadic
- Archaeological
- Norse
- Permanent
- Inhabited
- Slavic
- Mormon
- Palestinian
- Uninhabited
- Northernmost
- Populated
- Communal
- Raiding
- Saxon
- Iroquois
- Northeastern
- Malay
- Zionist
- Peaceful
- Elizabethan
- Undisclosed
- Farming
- Frontier
- Municipal
- Pursuant
- Southeastern
- Southernmost
Wiktionary
SETTLEMENT, noun. The state of being settled.
SETTLEMENT, noun. A colony that is newly established; a place or region newly settled.
SETTLEMENT, noun. A community of people living together, such as a hamlet, village, town, or city.
SETTLEMENT, noun. (architecture) The gradual sinking of a building. Fractures or dislocations caused by settlement.
SETTLEMENT, noun. (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.
SETTLEMENT, noun. (legal) A disposition of property, or the act of granting it.
SETTLEMENT, noun. (legal) A settled place of abode; residence; a right growing out of legal residence.
SETTLEMENT, noun. (legal) A resolution of a dispute.
SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT, noun. (legal) A contractual agreement between parties to actual or potential litigation by which each party agrees to a resolution of the underlying dispute.
SETTLEMENT AGREEMENTS, noun. Plural of settlement agreement
Dictionary definition
SETTLEMENT, 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; "the American colony in Paris".
SETTLEMENT, noun. A community of people smaller than a town.
SETTLEMENT, noun. A conclusive resolution of a matter and disposition of it.
SETTLEMENT, noun. The act of colonizing; the establishment of colonies; "the British colonization of America".
SETTLEMENT, noun. Something settled or resolved; the outcome of decision making; "they 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".
SETTLEMENT, noun. An area where a group of families live together.
SETTLEMENT, noun. Termination of a business operation by using its assets to discharge its liabilities.
Wise words
Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite
surprised to be taken at his word.