settlement

About 30.75 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun The act of settling.

   settlement of debt

2. noun The state of being settled.

   (Can we add an example for this sense?)

3. noun A colony that is newly established; a place or region newly settled.
4. noun A community of people living together, such as a hamlet, village, town, or city; a populated place.
5. noun A site where people used to live together in ancient times; an ancient simple kind of village.
6. noun The gradual sinking of a building. Fractures or dislocations caused by settlement.
7. noun 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.
8. noun A disposition of property, or the act of granting it.

Similar words

resolution liquidation colonisation colonization colony village small town settle conciliation reconciliation

Often followed by

of in and was at on with is to

Word family

settlements