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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



... person it should seem that our alarm was disproportioned to the occasion, and not justified at least by anything as yet made known to us, let that person consider the weight due to the two following facts: First, that from the recency of our settlement in this neighborhood, and from the extreme seclusion of my wife's previous life at a vast distance from the metropolis, she had positively no friends on her list of visitors who resided in this great capital; secondly, and far above all beside, let him remember the awful ...
— Narrative And Miscellaneous Papers • Thomas De Quincey
... of the United States sent an expedition under Commodore Patterson, to disperse the settlement of marauders at Barrataria; the following is an extract of his letter to ...
— The Pirates Own Book • Charles Ellms
... consequently were compelled to herd in industrial centers. They were deliberately shut off from possession of the land. This situation was already acute twenty-five years ago. "The area of arable land open to settlement," pointed out Secretary of the Interior Teller in a circular letter of May 22, 1883, "is not great when compared with the increasing demand and is rapidly decreasing." All other official reports consistently relate the same conditions. ...
— Great Fortunes from Railroads • Gustavus Myers
... reply. "And I," he continued, "am Prosper La Vigne, of the 'Less durneer' settlement" (for thus he pronounced this anglicized French name) "Maurice County, Georgia," with an air that seemed to say, "You have heard of me, of course!" and again I bowed, as ...
— Miriam Monfort - A Novel • Catherine A. Warfield
... a little out of the way, Mr. Carleton?" she said when they had passed through the Deepwater settlement.—"I have a message to carry to Mrs. Elster—a poor woman out here beyond the lake. It is ...
— Queechy • Susan Warner


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