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Settlement

The act or process of settling
The settlement of sediment.

Agreement

Harmony or accordance in opinion or feeling
The governments failed to reach agreement
The two officers nodded in agreement

Settlement

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

Agreement

The act of agreeing
When did the agreement take place?.

Settlement

A newly colonized region.
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Agreement

Harmony of opinion; accord
Since we are all in agreement, let's proceed.

Settlement

A small community.

Agreement

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

Settlement

An arrangement or agreement reached, as in business proceedings or negotiating a dispute
A wage settlement.
A peace settlement.

Agreement

A properly executed and legally binding contract.
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Settlement

The resolution of a lawsuit or dispute by settling.

Agreement

The writing or document embodying this contract.

Settlement

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

Agreement

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

Settlement

The legal determination of title to property.

Agreement

(countable) An understanding between entities to follow a specific course of conduct.
To enter an agreement;
The UK and US negotiators nearing agreement;
He nodded his agreement.

Settlement

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

Agreement

(uncountable) A state whereby several parties share a view or opinion; the state of not contradicting one another.
The results of my experiment are in agreement with those of Michelson and with the law of General Relativity.

Settlement

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

Agreement

A legally binding contract enforceable in a court of law.

Settlement

The act of settling.
Settlement of debt

Agreement

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.

Settlement

The state of being settled.

Agreement

An agreeable quality.

Settlement

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

Agreement

State of agreeing; harmony of opinion, statement, action, or character; concurrence; concord; conformity; as, a good agreement subsists among the members of the council.
What agreement hath the temple of God with idols ?
Expansion and duration have this further agreement.

Settlement

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

Agreement

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

Settlement

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

Agreement

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

Settlement

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

Agreement

The statement (oral or written) of an exchange of promises;
They had an agreement that they would not interfere in each other's business
There was an understanding between management and the workers

Settlement

(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.

Agreement

Compatibility of observations;
There was no agreement between theory and measurement
The results of two tests were in correspondence

Settlement

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

Agreement

Harmony of people's opinions or actions or characters;
The two parties were in agreement

Settlement

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

Agreement

The thing arranged or agreed to;
They made arrangements to meet in Chicago

Settlement

(legal) A resolution of a dispute.

Agreement

The determination of grammatical inflection on the basis of word relations

Settlement

(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.

Agreement

The verbal act of agreeing

Settlement

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

Settlement

Establishment in life, in business, condition, etc.; ordination or installation as pastor.
Every man living has a design in his head upon wealth power, or settlement in the world.

Settlement

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

Settlement

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.

Settlement

Matter that subsides; settlings; sediment; lees; dregs.
Fuller's earth left a thick settlement.

Settlement

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.

Settlement

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.

Settlement

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

Settlement

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.

Settlement

Bestowal, or giving possession, under legal sanction; the act of giving or conferring anything in a formal and permanent manner.
My flocks, my fields, my woods, my pastures take,With settlement as good as law can make.

Settlement

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.

Settlement

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.

Settlement

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

Settlement

A community of people smaller than a town

Settlement

A conclusive resolution of a matter and disposition of it

Settlement

The act of colonizing; the establishment of colonies;
The British colonization of America

Settlement

Something settled or resolved; the outcome of decision making;
The 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

Settlement

An area where a group of families live together

Settlement

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

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