Settlement may refer to:
- Consolidation (soil), a process by which soils decrease in volume
- Human settlement, a community where people live
- Plantation (settlement or colony), an early method of colonization
- Israeli settlement, communities inhabited by Israeli Jews in territory that came under Israel's control as a result of the 1967 Six-Day War
- Urban settlement (disambiguation)
- Rural settlement
- Urban-type settlement
- Settlement (closing), as in a real estate closing with transfer of title deed to the buyer
- Settlement (finance), the process of exchanging the consideration for financial instruments once a transaction has been executed
- Settlement (structural), the gradual distortions created in a structure
- Legal terms
- Settlement (litigation), an agreement or resolution of a dispute
- Settlement under the Poor Law, a person's place of origin or later established residence, being the Parish responsible for the person if destitute
- Settlement (trust), an instrument creating a trust
- Structured settlement, a financial or insurance agreement involving a structure of periodic payments to pay a debt such as tax liability
Famous quotes containing the word settlement:
“The settlement of America had its origins in the unsettlement of Europe. America came into existence when the European was already so distant from the ancient ideas and ways of his birthplace that the whole span of the Atlantic did not widen the gulf.”
—Lewis Mumford (1895–1990)
“The Puritans, to keep the remembrance of their unity one with another, and of their peaceful compact with the Indians, named their forest settlement CONCORD.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“The difficult and risky task of meeting and mastering the new—whether it be the settlement of new lands or the initiation of new ways of life—is not undertaken by the vanguard of society but by its rear. It is the misfits, failures, fugitives, outcasts and their like who are among the first to grapple with the new.”
—Eric Hoffer (1902–1983)