settlement

noun12

1. •
   The act of settling.
2. •
   A resolution of a dispute.
3. •
   A mutual agreement to end a dispute without resorting to legal proceedings, also known as an out-of-court settlement or settling out of court.
4. •
   a place where people have built homes and live together, from a few houses to a whole town
5. •
   A colony that is newly established; a place or region newly settled.
6. •
   A site where people used to live together in ancient times; an ancient simple kind of village.
7. •
   The state of being settled.
8. •
   The delivery of goods by the seller and payment for them by the buyer, under a previously agreed trade or transaction or contract entered into.
9. •
   The gradual sinking of a building. Fractures or dislocations caused by settlement.
10. •
    A disposition of property, or the act of granting it.
11. •
    A settled place of abode; residence; a right growing out of legal residence.
12. •
    (India, historical) An estate or district in Anglo-Indian Bengal where, instead of taking a quota of the year's produce, the government took a fixed sum several times a year from the local cultivators.