Settlement may refer to:
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Human settlement, a community where people live
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Settlement (structural), the distortion or disruption of parts of a building
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Closing (real estate), the final step in executing a real estate transaction
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Settlement (finance), where securities are delivered against payment of money
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Settlement (litigation)
In law, a settlement is a resolution between disputing parties about a legal case, reached either before or after court action begins. A collective settlement is a settlement of multiple similar legal cases. The term also has other meanings in t ...
, a resolution between disputing parties about a legal case
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Settlement (trust), a deed whereby property is given by a settlor into trust
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Israeli settlement
Israeli settlements, or Israeli colonies, are civilian communities inhabited by Israeli citizens, overwhelmingly of Jewish ethnicity, built on lands occupied by Israel in the 1967 Six-Day War. The international community considers Israeli se ...
, Jewish civilian communities built on land occupied by Israel
See also
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Act of Settlement (disambiguation), various legislation
*Settlement Act, or
Poor Relief Act 1662
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Collective settlement, another name for an intentional community
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Collective settlement (litigation), a legal term
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Settler colonialism, replacing the original population with a new society of settlers
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Settlement geography, investigating the part of the earth's surface settled by humans
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Settlement movement, a Victorian era reformist social movement
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Settlement school, social reform institutions established in rural Appalachia in the early 20th century
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Sedentism, the practice of living in one place for a long time
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Squatting
Squatting is the action of occupying an abandoned or unoccupied area of land or a building, usually residential, that the squatter does not own, rent or otherwise have lawful permission to use. The United Nations estimated in 2003 that there ...
, occupying an abandoned building
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Structured settlement
A structured settlement is a negotiated financial or insurance arrangement through which a claimant agrees to resolve a personal injury tort claim by receiving part or all of a Settlement (litigation), settlement in the form of periodic payments o ...
, a negotiated financial or insurance arrangement
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Consolidation (soil), a process by which soils decrease in volume
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