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Word: settlement (lookup usage) (lookup stats)


Meaning:

Noun:

  • architecture The gradual sinking of a building. Fractures or dislocations caused by settlement.
  • A colony that is newly established; a place or region newly settled.
  • 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.
  • legal A disposition of property, or the act of granting it.
  • legal A resolution of a dispute.
  • legal A settled place of abode; residence; a right growing out of legal residence.
  • The state of being settled.

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