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'settlement' in a sentence

Learn how to use 'settlement' with 4 example sentences.


settlement noun

: 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

: a community of people smaller than a town

: a conclusive resolution of a matter and disposition of it

: the act of colonizing; the establishment of colonies

: something settled or resolved; the outcome of decision making

: an area where a group of families live together

: termination of a business operation by using its assets to discharge its liabilities


  • Can we establish a human settlement on Mars?
  • The two countries will negotiate a settlement to the crisis.
  • He received a million-dollar settlement.
  • They established settlements in Africa.
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