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SETTLEMENT
- An official agreement intended to resolve a dispute or conflict
- A formal arrangement made between the parties to a lawsuit in order to resolve it, esp. out of court
- A place, typically one that has hitherto been uninhabited, where people establish a community
- The process of settling in such a place
- The action of allowing or helping people to do this
- An arrangement whereby property passes to a succession of people as dictated by the settlor
- The amount or property given
- The action or process of settling an account
- Subsidence of the ground or a structure built on it
- the act of settling [n -S]