settlement

noun

1. The act of settling.

   “settlement of debt”

2. The state of being settled.

3. A colony that is newly established; a place or region newly settled (even in past times).

4. A community of people living together, such as a hamlet, village, town, or city; a populated place.

5. archeologyA site where people used to live together in ancient times; an ancient simple kind of village.

6. architectureThe gradual sinking of a building. Fractures or dislocations caused by settlement.

7. financeThe delivery of goods by the seller and payment for them by the buyer, under a previously agreed trade or transaction or contract entered into.

8. legalA disposition of property, or the act of granting it.

9. legalA settled place of abode; residence; a right growing out of legal residence.

10. legalA resolution of a dispute.

11. lawA mutual agreement to end a dispute without resorting to legal proceedings, also known as an out-of-court settlement or settling out of court.

12. 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”

    Similar: colony

13. A conclusive resolution of a matter and disposition of it

14. The act of colonizing; the establishment of colonies

    “the British colonization of America”

    Similar: colonization, colonisation