Disbursement vs. Settlement
Disbursementnoun
The act, instance, or process of disbursing.
Disbursementnoun
Money paid out or spent.
Disbursementnoun
The act of disbursing or paying out.
Disbursementnoun
That which is disbursed or paid out; as, the annual disbursements exceed the income.
Disbursementnoun
amounts paid for goods and services that may be currently tax deductible (as opposed to capital expenditures)
Disbursementnoun
the act of spending or disbursing money
Disbursement
A disbursement is a form of payment from a public or dedicated fund. Alternatively, it means a payment made on behalf of a client to a third party for which reimbursement is subsequently sought from the client.
Settlementnoun
The act of settling.
Settlementnoun
The state of being settled.
Settlementnoun
A colony that is newly established; a place or region newly settled.
Settlementnoun
A community of people living together, such as a hamlet, village, town, or city.
Settlementnoun
(architecture) The gradual sinking of a building. Fractures or dislocations caused by settlement.
Settlementnoun
(finance) 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.
Settlementnoun
(legal) A disposition of property, or the act of granting it.
Settlementnoun
(legal) A settled place of abode; residence; a right growing out of legal residence.
Settlementnoun
(legal) A resolution of a dispute.
Settlementnoun
The act of setting, or the state of being settled.
Settlementnoun
Establishment in life, in business, condition, etc.; ordination or installation as pastor.
Settlementnoun
That which settles, or is settled, established, or fixed.
Settlementnoun
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.
Settlementnoun
Matter that subsides; settlings; sediment; lees; dregs.
Settlementnoun
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.
Settlementnoun
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.
Settlementnoun
A colony newly established; a place or region newly settled; as, settlement in the West.
Settlementnoun
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.
Settlementnoun
Bestowal, or giving possession, under legal sanction; the act of giving or conferring anything in a formal and permanent manner.
Settlementnoun
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.
Settlementnoun
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.
Settlementnoun
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
Settlementnoun
a community of people smaller than a town
Settlementnoun
a conclusive resolution of a matter and disposition of it
Settlementnoun
the act of colonizing; the establishment of colonies;
Settlementnoun
something settled or resolved; the outcome of decision making;
Settlementnoun
an area where a group of families live together
Settlementnoun
termination of a business operation by using its assets to discharge its liabilities
