Settlement may refer to: * Human settlement, a community where people live * Settlement (structural), the distortion or disruption of parts of a building *

Closing (real estate) The closing (also called the completion or settlement) is the final step in executing a real estate transaction. It is the last step in purchasing and financing a property. On the closing day, ownership of the property is transferred from the sel ...

, the final step in executing a real estate transaction * Settlement (finance), where securities are delivered against payment of money *

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 * Settlement (trust), a deed whereby property is given by a settlor into trust *

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

* * * Act of Settlement (disambiguation), various legislation *Settlement Act, or Poor Relief Act 1662 * Collective settlement, another name for an intentional community * Collective settlement (litigation), a legal term * Settler colonialism, replacing the original population with a new society of settlers * Settlement geography, investigating the part of the earth's surface settled by humans * Settlement movement, a Victorian era reformist social movement * Settlement school, social reform institutions established in rural Appalachia in the early 20th century * Sedentism, the practice of living in one place for a long time *

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 *

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 * Consolidation (soil), a process by which soils decrease in volume {{Disambiguation

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