settlement

IPA: sˈɛtʌɫmʌnt

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.
(archaeology) A site where people used to live together in ancient times; an ancient simple kind of village.
(architecture) The gradual sinking of a building. Fractures or dislocations caused by settlement.
(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.
(law) A disposition of property, or the act of granting it.
(law) A settled place of abode; residence; a right growing out of legal residence.
(law) A resolution of a dispute.
(law) 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.
(India, historical) 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 of "settlement" in Sentences

If money or land received in settlement is wasted that will be it.
The start the girl gave when the word settlement was spoken gave Hetty pause.
If the term settlement is used alone, it misleads readers to think positively of the activity.
A person with knowledge of the talks told The Associated Press that the term "settlement negotiations" doesn't necessarily mean an agreement is near.
The term settlement is used for any Jewish towns, villages or outposts in territory that Israel liberated during the 1967 war, even if those towns and villages had existed before 1948 and were captured by the Egyptians or Jordanians then.