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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
settlement
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a divorce settlement (=the amount of money, property etc each person gets in a divorce)
▪ She received a $10 million divorce settlement from her first husband.
a peace settlement/deal
▪ It is difficult to see how a peace settlement can be achieved.
a peaceful solution/resolution/settlement
▪ The authorities want a peaceful solution to the hostage crisis.
amicable settlement/agreement
▪ The two parties have reached an amicable settlement.
out-of-court settlement
penal colony/settlement (=a special area of land where prisoners are kept)
reach an agreement/compromise/settlement (=decide on an arrangement that is acceptable to both groups)
▪ Substantial progress was made toward reaching an agreement.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
early
▪ Figure 2.1: Diagram illustrating the resources exploited by the early Anglo-Saxon settlement at Bishopstone, Sussex.
▪ Here were the hop fields, and elms and pines and cedars: the country of early settlement, rich and Europeanized.
▪ There are four main points we need to consider, particularly for the earlier, undocumented settlements.
▪ Californians also turned down Proposition 202, a proposal to limit lawyers' contingency fees and encourage early settlement of lawsuits.
▪ An early settlement might be the best option.
▪ Its faith in private enterprise was nearly as absolute as its earlier faith that settlement would make the climate wetter.
▪ Are there any examples which clearly show these hamlets to be an early form of settlement?
▪ The new rules appear to encourage parties to lay their cards on the table and facilitate early settlements.
final
▪ The money paid as interim compensation would be adjusted against any final settlement.
▪ A final divorce settlement still needs to be worked out.
▪ What prompted the court to transform what was an appeal against an interim relief order into a final settlement?
▪ Many final settlements will be far bigger.
▪ Yet huge obstacles remain to a final settlement.
▪ You will almost inevitably be asked to accept the offer in full and final settlement of all your claims.
▪ And at Avranches, it was Arnulf who persuaded Henry to accept the final settlement.
key
▪ The first criticism is that, although key settlement policies are theoretically sound, they have been poorly implemented in practice.
▪ The actual definition of key settlements, the hierarchies of settlement types and the nomenclature adopted for these vary enormously among counties.
▪ The key settlement policies are a case in point.
▪ It is possible to sympathize with these arguments, but there are more fundamental criticisms of key settlement policies.
▪ One problem is that key settlements have been seen as panacea for all rural problems, irrespective of social and regional context.
▪ Even the argument that key settlements offer economies of scale has not remained unscathed.
▪ When it comes to implementing key settlement policies, local authorities have considerable resources at their disposal.
▪ Cloke assessed population change, housing development and service provision in the key and non-key settlements within these two counties.
large
▪ The sea coast provides fishing and in some of the larger settlements, main harbours.
▪ The company claimed this was the largest settlement it had ever paid in this kind of case.
▪ Mr Branson demanded his rival came up with a large compensation settlement for its three years of customer poaching and publicity smears.
▪ The picture is very variable but, as might be expected, larger settlements tend to have better services.
negotiated
▪ They called for a negotiated settlement restoring the republic's sovereignty and territorial integrity.
▪ The last possible moment for a negotiated settlement was in the third week of September.
▪ Somehow a negotiated settlement was reached.
▪ It calls instead for a negotiated settlement based on two principles.
▪ The defendants had not relied on the clause but had reached a negotiated settlement in similar prior cases.
▪ No one can underestimate the difficulties implicit in achieving a negotiated settlement.
▪ It provides the framework for a negotiated settlement.
new
▪ Thirdly, new land can be taken in, cleared and farmed, and new settlements created.
▪ In the dreary new settlements revivalist contests also provided entertainment.
▪ Nevertheless, we can distinguish areas where new land was being taken in and new settlements created.
▪ And in Kansas he chose Atchison, one of the new settlements.
▪ In some areas woodland, waste or upland pasture was cleared and developed and new settlements established.
▪ Also discusses the extent of support for new settlements.
▪ She decided that building a new settlement was more important than building her career.
▪ However, the gestation and birth of new settlements is a tricky and often painful business that needs careful management.
peaceful
▪ The treaty guaranteed the peaceful settlement of disputes between the two countries.
▪ They helped negotiate peaceful settlements to several independence wars.
▪ Trying to checkmate a protagonist into immobility-or nonexistence-will not promote a peaceful settlement.
▪ The press increased its din and accused all who favored a peaceful settlement of being traitors to the nation.
▪ This was hailed as historic at the time - as a giant contribution towards a peaceful settlement of the Middle East.
▪ The Old Testament abounds in accounts of peaceful settlements overwhelmed, ravished, and utterly destroyed.
political
▪ The Geneva meeting, the first summit since Potsdam ten years earlier, was not the result of any political settlement.
▪ Without a political settlement any truce in Bosnia remains precarious.
▪ Although the ceasefire appeared to be holding, a political settlement remained elusive.
▪ This rapidly changing eighteenth-century upper class reaped the rewards of the political settlement hard-won in 1688 after civil war and the interregnum.
▪ For Soviet officials such international guarantees should become a component part of a political settlement.
▪ Heresy provided a threat to civil as well as ecclesiastical order, to political settlement and to peace.
▪ But Mr Reynolds said that renewed efforts were needed to find a political settlement in Northern Ireland.
small
▪ We might have all insisted on living in small settlements.
▪ Through the small fishing settlement at Perkins Cove ran a trickle called the Josiah River.
▪ It's a small settlement, crouched before a fringing ring of cloud covered mountains.
▪ Carnon Consolidated has applied for planning permission to extend underground by 2 kilometres toward another small settlement, Carharrack.
▪ A small settlement might have just one tomb: Knossos was ringed by such tombs.
▪ Elkstone is now only a small settlement with a large farm to the south.
▪ The case of Riseholme illustrates clearly how the casualties occurred in small settlements rather than in more substantial ones.
▪ With such small settlements of difference, Davide could cope; but he did not like his work.
■ NOUN
court
▪ Pop music history is littered with examples of out of court settlements as a result of unlicensed sampling.
▪ Exxon subsequently withdrew guilty pleas to four misdemeanour charges relating to the spill, thereby formally dissolving the out of court settlement.
▪ Out of court settlements were consistent with Sinhalese norms.
▪ The award was made as part of an out of court settlement by the driver's insurance firm.
divorce
▪ It's judged in somewhat the same way as a divorce settlement, the same sort of amount.
▪ This partner had been given several million dollars as part of a divorce settlement.
▪ Her kisses and cuddles with Bryan could drastically reduce the payout she would receive as part of a divorce settlement.
▪ A final divorce settlement still needs to be worked out.
▪ Instead, court testimony revealed that Jerry Garcia asked her to draft a divorce settlement, which he signed.
▪ It is Mr Ekdahl and his puny divorce settlement.
house
▪ Why not establish an official school in a nearby church or settlement house?
▪ These two women ran the settlement house on their block, gave them books, and liked them because they were clean.
▪ Settlement houses and settlement house workers were at the cutting edge of social change.
▪ In the 1920s it was the most dynamic settlement house in New York.
pattern
▪ But settlement pattern contrasts for classic Indus Valley sites are still striking.
▪ For the Roman period, settlement patterns are perhaps a little more precise.
▪ All have similarities in settlement pattern and in social organization, with unilineal descent systems and chiefdom organization.
▪ Part 1 reviews the forces shaping housing development and settlement patterns.
▪ The Mormon settlement pattern resembled that of earlier Asiatic societies in that each community was engaged in basically the same activities.
▪ This may be when settlement patterns began to stabilise.
▪ Let us look, then, at some examples of settlement patterns in different areas.
pay
▪ Lamont limits public sector pay to 1 Public sector pay settlements have been limited to a maximum of one point five percent.
▪ In 1981 conflict over pay settlements led to an unprecedented civil service strike.
▪ The inflation figures, and even pay settlements, have been less awful than might have been expected.
▪ The Government introduced incentive allowances for teachers in 1987 when it removed the profession's bargaining rights and imposed a pay settlement.
▪ In manufacturing industry, pay settlements were down from an average of 9 percent. to 5.5 percent.
▪ Other pay settlements for powerful groups of workers have been preceded by promises to adjust the limits if necessary.
▪ The continuation order has no bearing on arrangements for next year's pay settlement.
▪ The pay settlement had changed her mind.
peace
▪ He found it hard enough to persuade senior officers to go along with the peace settlement.
▪ The tentative discussions in Washington towards a peace settlement are now irrelevant.
▪ My conviction is we will see a peace settlement.
▪ I re-emphasise that the policy of settlements in the occupied territories is a serious obstacle to a peace settlement.
▪ Baggage handlers at Manchester Airport voted last night to end their three-week strike after management and unions agreed on a peace settlement.
policy
▪ The first criticism is that, although key settlement policies are theoretically sound, they have been poorly implemented in practice.
▪ The key settlement policies are a case in point.
▪ It is possible to sympathize with these arguments, but there are more fundamental criticisms of key settlement policies.
▪ Not all selected settlement policies propose such a stark categorization of villages.
▪ When it comes to implementing key settlement policies, local authorities have considerable resources at their disposal.
▪ Another argument used to advocate key settlement policies is that they favour employment growth.
■ VERB
achieve
▪ If the Commission thinks the case admissible and worth proceeding with, it sees if it can achieve a friendly settlement.
▪ The flawed Geneva accommodation had postponed rather than achieved a settlement.
▪ This evidence assisted, I understand, in achieving a seven-figure settlement offer.
▪ No one can underestimate the difficulties implicit in achieving a negotiated settlement.
▪ It plans to issue a protective writ but is hoping to achieve a settlement.
agree
▪ And in spite of the size of the amount, most firms agree that the settlement is a bargain for E&Y;
▪ Abbott in a statement denied wrongdoing and said it agreed to the settlement to avoid costly litigation.
▪ The army denied liability but agreed on an out-of-court settlement.
▪ Microsoft agreed to a settlement in 1994 that many in the industry considered a mere slap on the wrist.
negotiate
▪ In an effort to regain equilibrium in the enterprise there are attempts to negotiate a settlement.
▪ The Justice Department negotiated a settlement in 1994 of charges that Microsoft enforced anticompetitive software licensing terms computer manufacturers.
▪ Now all he had to do was to convince the mysterious eight twelves to negotiate a settlement.
▪ They said they had not yet seen written versions of the negotiated settlement.
▪ Awife whose solicitors have been negligent in negotiating a financial settlement in her divorce proceedings is entitled to damages against the solicitors.
▪ By midsummer 1953, all attempts to negotiate a settlement of the oil crisis had foundered on Mossadeqs stubbornness.
▪ The defendants' articled clerk handled the wife's affairs and negotiated a financial settlement with the husband's solicitors.
reach
▪ This deal was subsequently accepted in the other regions, which had hitherto failed to reach settlements.
▪ Nithard presented Charles as doing everything possible to avoid battle and to reach a settlement with Lothar.
▪ Mills and Raines reached a settlement in March, with Mills receiving half of the winnings.
▪ Henry and Louis had discussed the problem but had reached no settlement.
▪ His agent, Scott Casterline, reached a settlement with the team that will save Brown one paycheck during his suspension.
▪ Efforts are now under way to collect these amounts, or to reach a negotiated settlement.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
broker a deal/settlement/treaty etc
▪ The tradable permit approach has launched a new industry that brokers deals between firms.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Settlements started to appear all along the river.
▪ a Mormon settlement
▪ She lived in a small settlement on the edge of the desert.
▪ The tools were found in an early Iron Age settlement.
▪ There were only a few scattered settlements of squatters by the river.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Are there any examples which clearly show these hamlets to be an early form of settlement?
▪ Four out of every five settlements achieved by conciliation officers are for compensation and only one in ten for reinstatement or re-employment.
▪ In 1909, the U. S. Government assumed control of the leper settlement at Molokai.
▪ Lybrand and soon after extracted a $ 25, 000 settlement from Leckie.
▪ Still more to the point, were they welcomed by the Melians when they took over the existing settlement at Phylakopi?
▪ The advantages of trying to obtain an out-of-court settlement at a relatively early stage in the proceedings are therefore obvious.
▪ What leader can bind a people to a settlement wholly repugnant to them?
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Settlement

Settlement \Set"tle*ment\, n.

  1. The act of setting, or the state of being settled. Specifically:

    1. Establishment in life, in business, condition, etc.; ordination or installation as pastor.

      Every man living has a design in his head upon wealth power, or settlement in the world.
      --L'Estrange.

    2. The act of peopling, or state of being peopled; act of planting, as a colony; colonization; occupation by settlers; as, the settlement of a new country.

    3. The act or process of adjusting or determining; composure of doubts or differences; pacification; liquidation of accounts; arrangement; adjustment; as, settlement of a controversy, of accounts, etc.

    4. Bestowal, or giving possession, under legal sanction; the act of giving or conferring anything in a formal and permanent manner.

      My flocks, my fields, my woods, my pastures take, With settlement as good as law can make.
      --Dryden.

    5. (Law) A disposition of property for the benefit of some person or persons, usually through the medium of trustees, and for the benefit of a wife, children, or other relatives; jointure granted to a wife, or the act of granting it.

  2. That which settles, or is settled, established, or fixed. Specifically:

    1. Matter that subsides; settlings; sediment; lees; dregs. [Obs.]

      Fuller's earth left a thick settlement.
      --Mortimer.

    2. A colony newly established; a place or region newly settled; as, settlement in the West.

    3. That which is bestowed formally and permanently; the sum secured to a person; especially, a jointure made to a woman at her marriage; also, in the United States, a sum of money or other property formerly granted to a pastor in additional to his salary.

  3. (Arch.)

    1. The gradual sinking of a building, whether by the yielding of the ground under the foundation, or by the compression of the joints or the material.

    2. pl. Fractures or dislocations caused by settlement.

  4. (Law) A settled place of abode; residence; a right growing out of residence; legal residence or establishment of a person in a particular parish or town, which entitles him to maintenance if a pauper, and subjects the parish or town to his support.
    --Blackstone. Bouvier.

    Act of settlement (Eng. Hist.), the statute of 12 and 13 William III, by which the crown was limited to the present reigning house (the house of Hanover).
    --Blackstone.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
settlement

1620s, "act of fixing or steadying;" from settle (v.) + -ment. Meaning "a colony," especially a new one, "tract of country newly developed" is attested from 1690s; that of "small village on the frontier" is from 1827, American English. Sense of "payment of an account" is from 1729; legal sense "a settling of arrangements" (of divorce, property transfer, etc.) is from 1670s.

Wiktionary
settlement

n. 1 The state of being settled. 2 A colony that is newly established; a place or region newly settled. 3 A community of people living together, such as a hamlet, village, town, or city. 4 (context architecture English) The gradual sinking of a building. Fractures or dislocations caused by settlement. 5 (context finance English) 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. 6 (context legal English) A disposition of property, or the act of granting it. 7 (context legal English) A settled place of abode; residence; a right growing out of legal residence. 8 (context legal English) A resolution of a dispute.

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WordNet
settlement

  1. n. 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]

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Wikipedia
Settlement (litigation)

In law, a settlement is a resolution between disputing parties about a legal case, reached either before or after court action begins. The term "settlement" also has other meanings in the context of law. Structured settlements provide for a periodic payment.

Settlement (trust)

A settlement in trusts law is a deed (also called a trust instrument) whereby real estate, land, or other property is given by a settlor into trust so that the beneficiary only has the limited right to the property (for example during their life), but usually has no right to transfer the land to another or leave it in their own will. Instead the property devolves as directed by the settlement.

Settlement (disambiguation)
Settlement

Settlement may refer to:

  • Consolidation (soil), a process by which soils decrease in volume
  • Human settlement, a community where people live
    • Plantation (settlement or colony), an early method of colonization
    • Urban settlement (disambiguation)
    • Rural settlement
    • Urban-type settlement
  • Settlement (structural), the gradual distortions created in a structure
Human settlement expansion, squatting and colonization
  • Early human migration
    • Settlement of the Americas
  • Squatting, communities established without legal right on unoccupied or abandoned property
  • Settler colonialism
    • European colonization of the Americas
    • French settlement of Algeria
    • Prussian Settlement Commission aimed at Germanization of Polish-inhabited areas from 1886 to 1924
    • Israeli settlement, communities inhabited by Israeli Jews in territory that came under Israel's control as a result of the 1967 Six-Day War
    • Turkish settlers in Northern Cyprus, as a result of the 1974 Turkish invasion of Cyprus
Financial terms
  • 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
Legal terms
  • Settlement (litigation), an agreement or resolution of a dispute
  • Settlement under the Poor Law, a person's place of origin or later established residence, being the Parish responsible for the person if destitute
  • Settlement (trust), an instrument creating a trust
  • Structured settlement, a financial or insurance agreement involving a structure of periodic payments to pay a debt such as tax liability
Settlement (finance)

Settlement of securities is a business process whereby securities or interests in securities are delivered, usually against ( in simultaneous exchange for) payment of money, to fulfill contractual obligations, such as those arising under securities trades.

In the United States, the settlement date for marketable stocks is usually 3 business days or T+3 after the trade is executed, and for listed options and government securities it is usually 1 day after the execution. In Europe, settlement date has recently been adopted as 2 business days settlement cycles T+2.

As part of performance on the delivery obligations entailed by the trade, settlement involves the delivery of securities and the corresponding payment.

A number of risks arise for the parties during the settlement interval, which are managed by the process of clearing, which follows trading and precedes settlement. Clearing involves modifying those contractual obligations so as to facilitate settlement, often by netting and novation.

Settlement (structural)

Settlement in a structure refers to the distortion or disruption of parts of a building due to

  • unequal compression of its foundations;
  • shrinkage, such as that which occurs in timber-framed buildings as the frame adjusts its moisture content; or
  • undue loads being applied to the building after its initial construction.

Settlement should not be confused with subsidence which results from the load-bearing ground upon which a building sits reducing in level, for instance in areas of mine workings where shafts collapse underground.

Some settlement is quite normal after construction has been completed, but unequal (differential) settlement may cause significant problems for buildings. Traditional green oak-framed buildings are designed to settle with time as the oak seasons and warps, lime mortar rather than Portland cement is used for its elastic properties and glazing will often employ small leaded lights which can accept movement more readily than larger panes.

Settlement (Croatia)

The territory of Croatia is divided by the Croatian Bureau of Statistics into small settlements, in Croatian naselje (singular; pl. naselja). They indicate existing or former human settlement. Individual settlements are by and large referred to as selo (village), and are not necessarily incorporated places. Rather, the administrative units are cities and municipalities , which are composed of one or more naselje. , there are 6,749 naselja in Croatia. The Constitution of Croatia allows a naselje or a part thereof to form some form of local government. This form of local government is typically used to subdivide the city settlements; a city usually includes an eponymous large settlement which in turn consists of several units named gradska četvrt ("city district") and/or mjesni odbor ("local committee").

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Usage examples of "settlement".

The settlement of the civil list left ministers at liberty to move the immediate adjournment of the house.

Battle of North India, in which the entire Anglo-Indian aeronautic settlement establishment fought for three days against overwhelming odds, and was dispersed and destroyed in detail.

One by one, on Midsummer Night, he and his agemates had set out from the river-valley settlement, heading into the mountains to stalk the carnivores of the high slopes.

One by one, on Mid-summer Night, he and his agemates had set out from the river-valley settlement, heading into the mountains to stalk the carnivores of the high slopes.

Sieur had been naming the settlements to honour the original founders: Vithrancel for Ancel Den Rannion, Hafreinsaur for Hafrein Den Fellaemion.

Bloemfontein Conference the High Commissioner was personally favourable to the settlement by arbitration of all the differences between the two Governments.

In 1614, Captain Sir Samuel Argal, sailing under a commission from Dale, governor of Virginia, visited the Dutch settlements on Hudson River, and demanded their submission to the English crown and Virginian dominion.

Pavoniaso that the terrible Captain Argal passed on totally unsuspicious that a sturdy little Dutch settlement lay snugly couched in the mud, under cover of all this pestilent vapor.

About 1609, Argal discovered a more direct and shorter passage to Virginia, and left the track of the ancient navigators, who had first directed their course southwards to the tropic, sailed westward by means of the trade winds, and then turned northward, till they reached the English settlements.

Rui Fernandez, reinforced by some 200 of his men who had succeeded in escaping from the stranded armadilla, now turned his attention to the settlement.

Kitels that the Birts fled for safety at the burning and sacking of Deorhyst by Sweyne, and it was by their aid that our family reclaimed some hides of forest land within a short distance of Pendyke and established a settlement, to which they gave the name of Birtsmereton, or the ton or village where the Birts settled close upon the borders of a great mere or moor-land swamp.

Mr Bittering gazed at the Earth settlement far away in the low valley.

Clearly, the story of the mysterious black man had driven Henri mad and it was to escape this man that he meant to abandon the settlement and flee with Villiers.

Shortly, they came to a ramshackle settlement, and Bluey stopped in the only street in front of a mud building.

From time to time, at the edges of his field of vision, Mondaugen would see small scurrying bands of Bondels, seeming almost to merge with the twilight, moving in and out of the small settlement in every direction.