Settlement vs. Agreement — What's the Difference?

The act or process of settling

Harmony or accordance in opinion or feeling

The settling or establishment of a person or a group of people, as in a new region or in a business.

The act of agreeing

A newly colonized region.

Harmony of opinion; accord

A small community.

An arrangement between parties, usually resulting from a discussion, regarding a course of action.

An arrangement or agreement reached, as in business proceedings or negotiating a dispute

A properly executed and legally binding contract.

The resolution of a lawsuit or dispute by settling.

The writing or document embodying this contract.

The process of reaching such an arrangement, agreement, or resolution.

(Grammar) Correspondence in gender, number, case, or person between words.

The legal determination of title to property.

(countable) An understanding between entities to follow a specific course of conduct.

The process of making the determinations and distributions associated with a trust.

(uncountable) A state whereby several parties share a view or opinion; the state of not contradicting one another.

A center providing community services in an underprivileged area. Also called settlement house.

A legally binding contract enforceable in a court of law.

The act of settling.

Rules that exist in many languages that force some parts of a sentence to be used or inflected differently depending on certain attributes of other parts.

The state of being settled.

An agreeable quality.

A colony that is newly established; a place or region newly settled (even in past times).

State of agreeing; harmony of opinion, statement, action, or character; concurrence; concord; conformity; as, a good agreement subsists among the members of the council.

A community of people living together, such as a hamlet, village, town, or city; a populated place.

Concord or correspondence of one word with another in gender, number, case, or person.

(archeology) A site where people used to live together in ancient times; an ancient simple kind of village.

A concurrence in an engagement that something shall be done or omitted; an exchange of promises; mutual understanding, arrangement, or stipulation; a contract.

(architecture) The gradual sinking of a building. Fractures or dislocations caused by settlement.

The statement (oral or written) of an exchange of promises;

(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.

Compatibility of observations;

(legal) A disposition of property, or the act of granting it.

Harmony of people's opinions or actions or characters;

(legal) A settled place of abode; residence; a right growing out of legal residence.

The thing arranged or agreed to;

(legal) A resolution of a dispute.

The determination of grammatical inflection on the basis of word relations

(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.

The verbal act of agreeing

The act of setting, or the state of being settled.

Establishment in life, in business, condition, etc.; ordination or installation as pastor.

That which settles, or is settled, established, or fixed.

The act of peopling, or state of being peopled; act of planting, as a colony; colonization; occupation by settlers; as, the settlement of a new country.

Matter that subsides; settlings; sediment; lees; dregs.

The gradual sinking of a building, whether by the yielding of the ground under the foundation, or by the compression of the joints or the material.

The act or process of adjusting or determining; composure of doubts or differences; pacification; liquidation of accounts; arrangement; adjustment; as, settlement of a controversy, of accounts, etc.

A colony newly established; a place or region newly settled; as, settlement in the West.

A settled place of abode; residence; a right growing out of residence; legal residence or establishment of a person in a particular parish or town, which entitles him to maintenance if a pauper, and subjects the parish or town to his support.

Bestowal, or giving possession, under legal sanction; the act of giving or conferring anything in a formal and permanent manner.

That which is bestowed formally and permanently; the sum secured to a person; especially, a jointure made to a woman at her marriage; also, in the United States, a sum of money or other property formerly granted to a pastor in additional to his salary.

A disposition of property for the benefit of some person or persons, usually through the medium of trustees, and for the benefit of a wife, children, or other relatives; jointure granted to a wife, or the act of granting it.

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

A community of people smaller than a town

A conclusive resolution of a matter and disposition of it

The act of colonizing; the establishment of colonies;

Something settled or resolved; the outcome of decision making;

An area where a group of families live together

Termination of a business operation by using its assets to discharge its liabilities