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Definition of Settlement

Settlement The act of setting, or the state of being settled. Establishment in life, in business, condition, etc.; ordination or installation as pastor. 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. 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. Bestowal, or giving possession, under legal sanction; the act of giving or conferring anything in a formal and permanent manner. 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. That which settles, or is settled, established, or fixed. Matter that subsides; settlings; sediment; lees; dregs. A colony newly established; a place or region newly settled; as, settlement in the West. 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. 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. Fractures or dislocations caused by settlement. 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. Related Definitions: Abode, Act, Additional, Adjusting, Adjustment, Also, And, Anything, Arrangement, As, At, Being, Benefit, Bestowal, Bestowed, Building, Business, By, Caused, Children, Colonization, Colony, Composure, Compression, Condition, Conferring, Controversy, Country, Determining, Disposition, Especially, Established, Establishment, Fixed, For, Formal, Formally, Formerly, Foundation, Giving, Gradual, Granted, Granting, Ground, Growing, Her, Him, His, If, In, Installation, Is, It, Jointure, Lees, Legal, Life, Liquidation, Made, Maintenance, Manner, Marriage, Material, Matter, Medium, Money, New, Newly, Occupation, Of, Or, Ordination, Other, Out, Pacification, Parish, Particular, Pastor, Pauper, Peopled, Peopling, Permanent, Permanently, Person, Place, Planting, Possession, Process, Property, Region, Residence, Right, Salary, Sanction, Secured, Sediment, Setting, Settled, Settlement, Sinking, Some, State, Sum, Support, That, The, Through, To, Town, Under, United, West, Whether, Which, Wife, Woman, Yielding

Settlement Quotations Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement. Oscar Wilde Our settlement of land is without regard to the best use of land. Arthur Erickson There can be no settlement of a great cause without discussion, and people will not discuss a cause until their attention is drawn to it. William Jennings Bryan America was indebted to immigration for her settlement and prosperity. That part of America which had encouraged them most had advanced most rapidly in population, agriculture and the arts. James Madison Everyone assumes America must play the leading role in crafting some settlement or compromise between the Israelis and the Palestinians. But Jefferson, Madison, and Washington explicitly warned against involving ourselves in foreign conflicts. Ron Paul

Settlement Translations settlement in Afrikaans is kolonie settlement in Danish is akkord settlement in Dutch is accoord, akkoord, overeenstemming settlement in French is colonie settlement in German is Siedlung, Vereinbarung {f}, Abmachung {f} settlement in Italian is accordo settlement in Portuguese is estabelecimento

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