settelment?

Answer 1

Settlement; a noun;
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.
2. A community of people smaller than a town.
3. A conclusive resolution of a matter and disposition of it.
4. The act of colonizing; the establishment of colonies.
5. Something settled or resolved; the outcome of decision making.
6. An area where a group of families live together.
7. Termination of a business operation by using its assets to discharge its liabilities.

Answer 2

In law there are two main meanings of the word settlement. The first, and most common meaning, refers to when the parties to a dispute (both disputes that are being litigated before the courts, and disputes where court action has not been started) reach an agreement as to the case, which is said to 'settle' the claim.

The second, and rarer use of the term relates to when real estate or land is given by a trust or in a will to someone, who has the right to the property during their life, but has no right to transfer the land to another or leave it in their own will (instead the original settlor decides what happens next).

There is a further meaning to settlement to describe the subsidence of the brickwear of a building into the ground, causing cracks.

There is yet another meaning of a grouping of houses and other buildings making up a community.

Answer 3

It's a place occupied by settlers, or people who establish themselves in a place to stay. They can become colonists.