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settlement Noun

— A settlement is a small, new colony; a new place for people to live. — A settlement is a decision made to fix and end a legal argument between two people. — Settlement is when people are settling someplace, that is moving to it — Settlement is what happens when a building falls into the ground very very slowly.

settlement

— noun (= colony) 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 — noun a conclusive resolution of a matter and disposition of it — noun (= colonization, colonisation) the act of colonizing; the establishment of colonies the British colonization of America — noun (= village) a community of people smaller than a town — noun (= resolution, closure) something settled or resolved; the outcome of decision making they 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 — noun an area where a group of families live together — noun (= liquidation) termination of a business operation by using its assets to discharge its liabilities

Synonyms settlement synonyms

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village colony decision town resolution conclusion arrangement colonization solution reconciliation community agreement liquidation establishment hamlet end determination compromise colonisation rule regulation payment mediation covenant city accord treaty transaction small town residence reimbursement rapprochement population habitation foundation fixing fix deposition conciliation concession composition company closure clan camp bargain adjustment account accommodation wind up an account

Topics settlement topics

What do people use settlement to talk about?

Work and occupation Working with buildings Building

House

What general words refer to a house where people live?

dwelling house home abode habitation residence homestead settlement compound place

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Simple sentences

The two countries came to a political settlement over this dispute.

Archeologists said there is evidence that an even earlier settlement, estimated to be about 7,000-years-old, exists below the buildings of En Esur.

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At the end, it was very close to the settlement.

She's open to a settlement conversation, which you will be required to attend.

So we're talking settlement?

I'm down here prepping Jane for her settlement meeting.

As an impartial, I advise the sides to settle the case, pointing attention to the fact that a settlement is not dishonourable.

She wants me to arrange the financial settlement.

And we have made a settlement with Egypt whereby we support young Ptolemy as King.

He made a big settlement on you.

Did he mention any settlement?

Take up any settlement talk with me in the office.

He wants to make a settlement.

But every day, they're pushin'past the Missouri. and across the rollin'Kansas plains. stoppin'here and there to build a settlement or a railroad. ploughing'fields, raisin'a crop, then moving'on again. their eyes fixed on the shining'mountains.

They want to make a settlement.

I've spent holidays the last few years doing settlement work in London slums.

The first thing to do is to arrange for a settlement.

Anyone in this great settlement knowing the whereabouts of William Chandler. will please communicate with station ZHM, Singapore.

Take up any settlement talk with my office.

Cedar wants to make a settlement.

Before the hearing, he offered to call everything off if I made a settlement.

You see, I make a clean-cut pre-marriage settlement.

Pre-marriage settlement.

The ape-man they talked about back at the settlement.

Then the night falls and we are forced to pitch an emergency settlement.

A settlement for a certain sum, a part of the policy value.

There wasn't a word about settlement in the governor of Cuba's instructions to you.

They've upset the settlement we reached last summer.

But I'll take the small pig in settlement.

And I will not allow even the Hetman. That in the settlement, in our heart, an enemy!

Someone goes to the polack settlement, as if to accidentally get captured,.and there under torture show that all our cavalry and Tatars are not in this forest, but there.

She runs a settlement house down in the Village.

I didn't say we want to. What I want to suggest is a compromise on both sides. A settlement for a certain sum, a part of the policy value.

I get a modest settlement.

I don't know. - Why don't you sue for divorce and get a fat settlement?

You haven't been running a settlement house exactly.

News and current affairs

The US offered various sweeteners to induce Israel to freeze its West Bank settlement construction for another 90 days.

The official view remains that only an internationally guaranteed two-state settlement will bring about the security needed for the economic revival of the Palestinian territories.

The time is right for a new global settlement that targets growth, addresses crisis conditions in certain parts of the world, and rebalances the global economy to set it back on a path of strong and steady growth.

Its involvement in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict will likely be limited to maintaining the status quo rather than seeking a comprehensive settlement.

The solution is a version of the deal that Clinton sought: two sovereign states based on the 1967 borders, with negotiated land swaps to reflect existing settlement patterns.

They should attempt to produce an immediate cessation of violence from both sides while simultaneously focusing on a permanent settlement of our conflict.

Alongside this effort, vigorous negotiations on a permanent settlement should start immediately.

The United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP) wants to introduce a five-year ban on immigration for permanent settlement.

Hamas, whose engagement and support is essential for any settlement, has sworn revenge.

There will be no peace settlement otherwise.

That such an approach would have to include a total halt to Israeli settlement activities goes without saying.

That realization prompted the all-Arab peace initiative of 2002, which established the conditions for an Israeli-Arab comprehensive settlement.

This precludes any progress toward a peace settlement at a time when progress on the Palestinian problem could help avert conflagration in the greater Middle East.

The Saudis view this accord as the prelude to the offer of a peace settlement with Israel, to be guaranteed by Saudi Arabia and other Arab countries.

Nor will Arafat's departure revive hopes for a political settlement with Israel.

Even as Brazil hardens its soft power, it remains deeply committed to the path of dialogue, conflict prevention, and the negotiated settlement of disputes.

First, the most important contribution that this conference can make to the possibility of a negotiated settlement and a political transition in Syria is to change the principal parties' incentives.

The implication is that the dollar, the euro, and the renminbi will share the roles of invoicing currency, settlement currency, and reserve currency in coming years.

These five powerful countries owe their UN pre-eminence to the post-World War II settlement, when they were allies in victory.

Worse still, China has refused to accept the UNCLOS dispute-settlement mechanism, thereby remaining unfettered in altering facts on the ground.

This year, as the American-led effort to mediate a Middle East peace settlement began to falter, Turkey took up the job of mediator in both the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the conflict between Syria and Israel.

It may also presuppose at least a temporary settlement of the main regional conflicts.

Direct talks should concentrate on two parallel tracks. They should attempt to produce an immediate cessation of violence from both sides while simultaneously focusing on a permanent settlement of our conflict.

In the last round of Israeli-Palestinian peace talks eight years ago, it was clear that a deal with Syria would automatically pave the way to a settlement with Lebanon, and an end to Hezbollah's threat to Israel's northern border.

But this has always been unlikely in the absence of a comprehensive settlement that addresses Armenians' greatest fear - security - and fulfils their basic political requirement, namely a definition of Nagorno-Karabakh's status.

The real problem with a generous wage settlement with public-sector unions is that private-sector unions could use it to get more than their productivity gains warrant.

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