settlements
Places people establish
Settlements are places where people establish residence, from small villages to large cities.
The word also means the act of settling—resolving a dispute or debt: They reached a settlement out of court, a divorce settlement.
In legal contexts, a settlement is an agreement that ends litigation, usually involving payment: The company paid a multimillion-dollar settlement.
Settlement can also mean the process of colonizing land: European settlement of the Americas.
Shared position between parties
- resolutionFormal decision or determination
- compensationPayment for services rendered
- payoutMoney distributed to recipient
- lawsuitCivil court proceeding
negotiation · mediation · arbitration · damages · claim · dispute · verdict · court
Small rural community
- colonyDependent territorial settlement
- townMid-sized settlement
- outpostRemote military station
- encampmentTemporary military or refugee settlement
hamlet · community · homestead · dwelling · kibbutz · compound · township · frontier
Fulfilling a financial obligation
- clearancePermitted passage or approval
- transactionExchange of goods/money
- accountRecord of dealings
- balanceSteadiness or amount owed
debt · invoice · reconciliation · closing · disbursement · remittance · transfer · outstanding
Dependent territorial settlement
- outpostRemote military station
- plantationLarge-scale farming operation
- territoryLand under jurisdiction
- conquestDefeating and seizing control
imperialism · frontier · indigenous · displacement · land · expansion · trading · missionary
agreement
Shared position between parties
- resolutionFormal decision or determination
- compensationPayment for services rendered
- payoutMoney distributed to recipient
lawsuit · negotiation · mediation · arbitration · damages · claim · dispute · verdict · court · plaintiff
village
Small rural community
encampment · hamlet · community · homestead · dwelling · kibbutz · compound · township · frontier · pioneer
payment
Fulfilling a financial obligation
- clearancePermitted passage or approval
- transactionExchange of goods/money
- accountRecord of dealings
balance · debt · invoice · reconciliation · closing · disbursement · remittance · transfer · outstanding · net
colony
Dependent territorial settlement
- outpostRemote military station
- plantationLarge-scale farming operation
- territoryLand under jurisdiction
conquest · imperialism · frontier · indigenous · displacement · land · expansion · trading · missionary · fort
- litigationpleadings, lawsuit, plaintiff, complaint, lawsuits
- Viking historyVikings, Leif Erikson, Erik the Red, longships, Vinland
- civilization topicsculture, trade, war, art, religion
- regional featurestopography, coastlines, valleys, plateaus, wetlands
- understandingsagreements, accords, pacts, treaties, deals
- Israeli-Palestinian ConflictIsraeli-Palestinian conflict, West Bank, Gaza, East Jerusalem, PLO
settlementswilderness
Uncultivated, uninhabited natural region
wildlands · wilds · wasteland · hinterland · backcountry
settlementslitigation
Legal dispute process
lawsuits · disputes · trials · stalemates · deadlocks
settlementsabandonment
Act of leaving permanently
evacuation · exodus · displacement · desertion · depopulation
- divorce settlementTerms ending a marriage
- legal settlementNegotiated dispute resolution
- out-of-court settlementResolution bypassing formal litigation
- peace settlementAgreement ending armed conflict
- debt settlementNegotiated partial repayment agreement
- marriage settlementContract governing spousal property