Settlement vs. Agreement

Settlementnoun

The act of settling.

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The state of being settled.

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A colony that is newly established; a place or region newly settled.

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A community of people living together, such as a hamlet, village, town, or city.

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(architecture) The gradual sinking of a building. Fractures or dislocations caused by settlement.

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(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.

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(legal) A disposition of property, or the act of granting it.

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(legal) A settled place of abode; residence; a right growing out of legal residence.

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(legal) A resolution of a dispute.

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The act of setting, or the state of being settled.

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Establishment in life, in business, condition, etc.; ordination or installation as pastor.

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That which settles, or is settled, established, or fixed.

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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.

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Matter that subsides; settlings; sediment; lees; dregs.

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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.

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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.

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A colony newly established; a place or region newly settled; as, settlement in the West.

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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.

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Bestowal, or giving possession, under legal sanction; the act of giving or conferring anything in a formal and permanent manner.

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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.

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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.

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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

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a community of people smaller than a town

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a conclusive resolution of a matter and disposition of it

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the act of colonizing; the establishment of colonies;

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something settled or resolved; the outcome of decision making;

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an area where a group of families live together

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

Agreementnoun

(countable) An understanding between entities to follow a specific course of conduct.

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(uncountable) A state whereby several parties share a view or opinion; the state of not contradicting one another.

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A legally binding contract enforceable in a court of law.

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Rules that exist in many languages that force some parts of a sentence to be used or inflected differently depending on certain attributes of other parts.

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An agreeable quality.

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State of agreeing; harmony of opinion, statement, action, or character; concurrence; concord; conformity; as, a good agreement subsists among the members of the council.

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Concord or correspondence of one word with another in gender, number, case, or person.

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A concurrence in an engagement that something shall be done or omitted; an exchange of promises; mutual understanding, arrangement, or stipulation; a contract.

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the statement (oral or written) of an exchange of promises;

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compatibility of observations;

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harmony of people's opinions or actions or characters;

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the thing arranged or agreed to;

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the determination of grammatical inflection on the basis of word relations

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the verbal act of agreeing

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harmony or accordance in opinion or feeling

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a negotiated and typically legally binding arrangement between parties as to a course of action

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the absence of incompatibility between two things; consistency

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the condition of having the same number, gender, case, and/or person as another word.