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Settlement   /sˈɛtəlmənt/   Listen
noun
Settlement  n.  
1.
The act of setting, or the state of being settled. Specifically:
(a)
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."
(b)
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.
(c)
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.
(d)
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."
(e)
(Law) 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.
2.
That which settles, or is settled, established, or fixed. Specifically:
(a)
Matter that subsides; settlings; sediment; lees; dregs. (Obs.) "Fuller's earth left a thick settlement."
(b)
A colony newly established; a place or region newly settled; as, settlement in the West.
(c)
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.
3.
(Arch.)
(a)
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.
(b)
pl. Fractures or dislocations caused by settlement.
4.
(Law) 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.
Act of settlement (Eng. Hist.), the statute of 12 and 13 William III, by which the crown was limited to the present reigning house (the house of Hanover).





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"Settlement" Quotes from Famous Books



... independence, it may fairly be questioned whether a good agricultural workman, now practically liberated from the Law of Settlement, and who can command a fair wage anywhere, is not really more independent than a French peasant absolutely tied to a ...
— Speculations from Political Economy • C. B. Clarke
... Norwegian vessel, and driven southward in a storm, from Greenland along the coasts of Labrador, wintered in Vineland on the shores of Mount Hope Bay. Longfellow's Skeleton in Armor has revealed their temporary settlement. Thither sailed Eric's son, Thorstein, with his young and beautiful wife, Gudrida, and their twenty-five companions, the following year. His death occurred, and put an end to the expedition, which Thorfinn took ...
— The Bay State Monthly, Vol. 1, Issue 1. - A Massachusetts Magazine of Literature, History, - Biography, And State Progress • Various
... his head full of a plan for opening a new trade with a distant part of the Archipelago. The then governor had given him no end of encouragement. No Excellency he—this Mr. Denham—this governor with his jacket off; a man who tended night and day, so to speak, the growing prosperity of the settlement with the self-forgetful devotion of a nurse for a child she loves; a lone bachelor who lived as in a camp with the few servants and his three dogs in what was called then the Government Bungalow: a low-roofed structure on the half-cleared slope of a hill, with a new flagstaff in front and a police ...
— End of the Tether • Joseph Conrad
... found deep in a mountainous terrain. The mine would not be on a prairie. The settlement on Orede, then, would be near the edge of mountains, not far from a prairie such as wild cattle would frequent, and it would be in a ...
— This World Is Taboo • Murray Leinster
... year it fell out dat de craps wuz burnt up. A dry drouth had done de work, an' ef you'd 'a' struck a match anywhar in dat settlement, de whole county would 'a' blazed up. Ol' man Hongriness des natchally tuck of his cloze an' went paradin' 'bout eve'ywhar, an' de creeturs got bony an' skinny. Ol' Brer B'ar done better dan any un um, kaze all he hatter do wuz go ter sleep an' live off'n his own ...
— Uncle Remus and Brer Rabbit • Joel Chandler Harris


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