Settlement Settlement

Settlement - Definition and Overview

Related Words: Accommodation, Acquittal, Affirmation, Agreement, Alienation, Ally, Amortization, Anchorage, Appanage, Arbitration, Archduchy, Arrangement, Ashram, Assignment, Bargain, Barter
  1. A reference to colonization, or the resulting communities. See hamlet (place).
  2. A legal term, an agreement resolving disputes. See settlement (law).
  3. Settlement (financial). The process of swapping the consideration for the deeds, shares, securities, or financial instrument once the trade, deal, or bargain has been executed.

Example Usage of Settlement

supernova7: The Google-Books Settlement: A Lawsuit Ripe for . . . Congress?http://bit.ly/6lyi51
jomarkv1wy: Gordon Brown has a point about the Act of Settlement – Telegraph Blogs http://tinyurl.com/yhot2u5
yagbebi: RT @AnneDanmark: RT @jerusalempost Peres: After talks resume, Settlement building will stop http://twurl.nl/f62lk4 (cont) http://tl.gd/117j3
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