Settlement vs. Reconciliation

Settlementnoun

The act of settling.

Settlementnoun

The state of being settled.

Settlementnoun

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.

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.

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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.

Settlementnoun

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.

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.

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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

Settlementnoun

the act of colonizing; the establishment of colonies;

Settlementnoun

something settled or resolved; the outcome of decision making;

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an area where a group of families live together

Settlementnoun

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

Reconciliationnoun

The re-establishment of friendly relations; conciliation, rapprochement.

Reconciliationnoun

(accounting) The process of comparing and resolving apparent differences between sets of accounting records, or between accounting records and bank statements, receipts, etc.

Reconciliationnoun

Religious senses.

Reconciliationnoun

(Christianity) The end of estrangement between a human and God as a result of atonement.

Reconciliationnoun

(Christianity) The reconsecration of a desecrated church or other holy site.

Reconciliationnoun

Admission of a person to membership of the church, or readmission after the person has previously left the church.

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(Roman Catholicism) granted]] by the priest

Reconciliationnoun

(Canadian) The process of systemically atoning for the crimes and broken promises of the Canadian government historically committed against First Nations people in that country.

Reconciliationnoun

The act of reconciling, or the state of being reconciled; reconcilenment; restoration to harmony; renewal of friendship.

Reconciliationnoun

Reduction to congruence or consistency; removal of inconsistency; harmony.

Reconciliationnoun

the reestablishing of cordial relations

Reconciliationnoun

getting two things to correspond;