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Settlement :: Settlement (n.) Fractures or dislocations caused by settlement.

Settlement :: Settlement (n.) 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..

Reckoning :: Reckoning (n.) Adjustment of claims and accounts; settlement of obligations, liabilities, etc..

Footing :: Footing (n.) Standing; position; established place; basis for operation; permanent settlement; foothold.

Finality :: Finality (n.) The state of being final, finished, or complete; a final or conclusive arrangement; a settlement..

Settlement :: Settlement (n.) The act of setting, or the state of being settled..

Moot :: Moot (n.) A meeting for discussion and deliberation; esp., a meeting of the people of a village or district, in Anglo-Saxon times, for the discussion and settlement of matters of common interest; -- usually in composition; as, folk-moot..

Compromise :: Compromise (n.) A settlement by arbitration or by mutual consent reached by concession on both sides; a reciprocal abatement of extreme demands or rights, resulting in an agreement..

Plantation :: Plantation (n.) An original settlement in a new country; a colony.

Dissettlement :: Dissettlement (n.) The act of unsettling, or the state of being unsettled..

Settlement :: Settlement (n.) 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..

Satisfaction :: Satisfaction (n.) Settlement of a claim, due, or demand; payment; indemnification; adequate compensation..

Fine :: Fine (n.) A sum of money paid as the settlement of a claim, or by way of terminating a matter in dispute; especially, a payment of money imposed upon a party as a punishment for an offense; a mulct..

Convictism :: Convictism (n.) The policy or practice of transporting convicts to penal settlements.

Intrusion :: Intrusion (n.) The settlement of a minister over 3 congregation without their consent.

Settlement :: Settlement (n.) 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..

Preestablishment :: Preestablishment (n.) Settlement beforehand.

Back :: Back (a.) Being at the back or in the rear; distant; remote; as, the back door; back settlements..

Contango :: Contango (n.) The premium or interest paid by the buyer to the seller, to be allowed to defer paying for the stock purchased until the next fortnightly settlement day..

Unsettlement :: Unsettlement (n.) The act of unsettling, or state of being unsettled; disturbance..

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