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Meaning of settlement


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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  settlement
      n 1: 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" [syn:
           {colony}, {settlement}]
      2: a community of people smaller than a town [syn: {village},
         {small town}, {settlement}]
      3: a conclusive resolution of a matter and disposition of it
      4: the act of colonizing; the establishment of colonies; "the
         British colonization of America" [syn: {colonization},
         {colonisation}, {settlement}]
      5: 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" [syn: {settlement}, {resolution},
         {closure}]
      6: an area where a group of families live together
      7: termination of a business operation by using its assets to
         discharge its liabilities [syn: {liquidation}, {settlement}]


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