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settlement (countable and uncountable, plural settlements)
- The act of settling.
settlement of debt
- The state of being settled.
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- A colony that is newly established; a place or region newly settled (even in past times).
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- A community of people living together, such as a hamlet, village, town, or city; a populated place.
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- (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.
2021 April 11, A. Hutton, “Kyle Plush: $6million settlement for family of Ohio teen who was crushed to death in 2018”, in The Independent[1]:
The family of a[sic] Ohio teenager who was crushed to death by the seat of a minivan after emergency responders failed to find him in time has been awarded a $6million settlement […] As part of the settlement, the city has pledged to improve its 911 call centre […]
- (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.
- (A resolution of a dispute): arrangement
- See also Thesaurus:settlement
the state of being settled
- Finnish: asuttaminen (fi)
- French: règlement (fr) m, solution (fr) f
- German: Regelung (de) f, Regulierung (de) f, Erledigung (de) f
- Greek: συμφωνία (el) f (symfonía), διευθέτηση (el) f (diefthétisi), τακτοποίηση (el) f (taktopoíisi)
- Hungarian: letelepedés (hu), letelepülés, betelepülés (hu), betelepedés (hu), megtelepedés (hu)
- Irish: lonnaíocht f, socrú m
- Japanese: 解決 (ja) (かいけつ, kaiketsu)
- Malay: penempatan, penyelesaian (ms)
- Maori: whakataiwhenuatanga
- Polish: porozumienie (pl) n, ugoda (pl) f
- Portuguese: estabelecer (pt)
- Russian: урегули́рование (ru) n (uregulírovanije), удовлетворе́ние (ru) n (udovletvorénije), реше́ние (ru) n (rešénije)
- Telugu: తర్వాత (te) (tarvāta)
- Turkish: sulh olma, uzlaşma (tr)
newly established colony
- Arabic: مُسْتَعْمَرَة f (mustaʕmara), مُسْتَوْطَنَة f (mustawṭana)
- South Levantine Arabic: مستوطنة (mustáwtane)
- Armenian: please add this translation if you can
- Belarusian: пасяле́нне (be) n (pasjaljénnje), пасяле́ньне n (pasjaljénʹnje) (Taraškievica), пасе́лiшча n (pasjélišča), сялі́ба f (sjalíba), аса́да f (asáda)
- Bulgarian: се́лище (bg) n (sélište), посе́лище (bg) n (posélište)
- Catalan: assentament (ca) m
- Chinese:
- Coptic: ϭⲉⲣϭⲏ m (cercē)
- Czech: osada (cs) f
- Dutch: nederzetting (nl) f
- Esperanto: kolonio
- Finnish: siirtokunta (fi), uudisasutus
- French: colonie (fr) f
- Galician: asentamento (gl) m
- Georgian: please add this translation if you can
- German: Ansiedlung (de) f, Siedlung (de) f, Niederlassung (de) f, Kolonie (de) f
- Greek: οικισμός (el) m (oikismós), αποικισμός (el) m (apoikismós)
- Hebrew: הִתְנַחֲלוּת (he) (hitnaḥlút)
- Hungarian: telep (hu), kolónia (hu)
- Irish: lonnaíocht f
- Italian: insediamento (it) m
- Japanese: 入植 (にゅうしょく, nyūshoku), 定住 (ja) (ていじゅう, teijū), 植民地 (ja) (しょくみんち, shokuminchi), 前哨地 (ぜんしょうち, zenshōchi)
- Khmer: ការតាំងទីលំនៅ (kaatangtiilumnɨw)
- Kurdish:
- Central Kurdish: نیشتگە (nîştge)
- Macedonian: населба f (naselba)
- Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
- Nepali: बस्ती (bastī)
- Pitcairn-Norfolk: setlment
- Plautdietsch: Aunsiedlunk f
- Polish: osada (pl) f, osiedle (pl) n
- Portuguese: povoação (pt) f, assentamento (pt)
- Russian: поселе́ние (ru) n (poselénije), коло́ния (ru) f (kolónija), посёлок (ru) m (posjólok) (township)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Slovak: osada f
- Slovene: naselje n, naselbina f
- Spanish: poblado (es) m, asentamiento (es) m
- Swedish: koloni (sv) c
- Thai: please add this translation if you can
- Tibetan: གཞིས་ཆགས (gzhis chags)
- Turkish: yerleşim birimi (tr)
- Ukrainian: посе́лення (uk) n (posélennja), оса́да f (osáda)
(finance) delivery and payment
(law) resolution
- Abkhaz: аҭы́шәныртәалара (atə́ŝʷnərtʷʼalara)
- Armenian: կարգավորման (kargavorman)
- Azerbaijani: həll
- Chechen: дӏадерзор (dˀaderzor), тадар (tadar)
- Danish: forlig (da) n
- Finnish: ratkaisu (fi)
- French: arrangement (fr) m
- Galician: avinza (gl) f
- Georgian: მოგვარება (mogvareba)
- German: Vergleich (de) m, Ausgleich (de) m, Abfindung (de) f
- Hungarian: megegyezés (hu), egyezség (hu), megállapodás (hu), rendezés (hu)
- Indonesian: penyelesaian (id)
- Irish: socrú m
- Kazakh: бітімгершілік келісім (bıtımgerşılık kelısım), бәтуалы келісім (bätualy kelısım)
- Malay: penyelesaian (ms)
- Polish: rozstrzygnięcie (pl) n
- Spanish: finiquito (es)
- Swedish: förlikning (sv) c
- Turkish: tediye (tr), tesviye (tr)