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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.

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by Preposition

— near or next to. The mailbox is by the bus stop. — at some time before (the given time). Be back by ten o'clock! — if something is done by somebody, it is done through their action The matter was decided by the chairman. The boat was swamped by the water. He was protected by his body armour. — if something is created by somebody, they are the creator, author, etc. There are many well-known plays by William Shakespeare. — shows how someone does something I avoided the guards by moving only when they weren't looking. — using the rules or logic of. I sorted the items by category. — with a change of. In this case, by shows how much something has changed. Our stock is up by ten percent. — shows how slowly, or how quickly, someone does something (used in the form "X by X" or "by Xs") We went through the book page by page. We crawled forward by inches. — If you multiply mathx/math by mathy/math, you multiply mathx/math × mathy/math. Five multiplied by seven is 35. — If you divide mathx/math by mathy/math, you find how many mathy/maths are in mathx/math. 35 divided by seven is five.

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will Verb

— Will is usually used to say that you strongly expect something to happen in the future. Don't worry. The sun will come up again tomorrow. — If you will do something, you make a plan to do it. I will go to the store.

will Verb

— If you will something to happen, you wish for it to happen. — If you will something to someone, you write down your plan to give it to them after your death. He willed his coin collection to his son.

will Noun

— A will is a statement about what you want to happen after you die. His will states that the house will be inherited by his oldest son after his death.

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