Settlement may refer to:
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Human settlement
In geography, statistics and archaeology, a settlement, locality or populated place is a community of people living in a particular location, place. The complexity of a settlement can range from a minuscule number of Dwelling, dwellings gro ...
, a community where people live
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Settlement (structural)
Settlement is the downward movement or the sinking of a structure's foundation. It is mostly caused by changes in the underlying soil, such as drying and shrinking, wetting and softening, or compression due to the soil being poorly compacted wh ...
, downward movement of a structure's foundation
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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 i ...
, 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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Thomson Bay Settlement, Rottnest Island, Western Australia, also known as simply The Settlement
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Closing (real estate)
Closing may refer to:
Business and law
* Closing (law), a closing argument, a summation
* Closing (real estate), the final step in executing a real estate transaction
* Closing (sales), the process of making a sale
* Closure (business), Closing a ...
, the final step in executing a real estate transaction
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Act of Settlement (disambiguation) Act of Settlement most commonly refers to the Act of Settlement 1701, an Act of the Parliament of England.
Act of Settlement or Settlement Act may also refer to:
* Act for the Settlement of Ireland 1652, in response to the Irish Rebellion of 1641
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, various legislation
*Settlement Act, or
Poor Relief Act 1662
The Poor Relief Act 1662 ( 14 Cha. 2. c. 12) was an act of the Cavalier Parliament of England. It was ''an Act for the Better Relief of the Poor of this Kingdom'' and is also known as the Settlement Act or the Settlement and Removal Act. The ...
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Collective settlement
An intentional community is a voluntary residential community designed to foster a high degree of social cohesion and teamwork. Such communities typically promote shared values or beliefs, or pursue a common vision, which may be politica ...
, another name for an intentional community
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Collective 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 ...
, a legal term
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Sedentism
In anthropology, sedentism (sometimes called sedentariness; compare sedentarism) is the practice of living in one place for a long time. As of , the large majority of people belong to sedentary cultures. In evolutionary anthropology and arch ...
, the practice of living in one place for a long time
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Settlement geography
Settlement geography is a branch of human geography that investigates the Earth's surface's part settled by humans. According to the United Nations' Vancouver Declaration on Human Settlements (1976), "human settlements means the totality of ...
, investigating the part of the Earth's surface settled by humans
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Settlement movement
The settlement movement was a reformist social movement that began in the 1880s and peaked around the 1920s in the United Kingdom and the United States. Its goal was to bring the rich and the poor of society together in both physical proximity an ...
, a Victorian era reformist social movement
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Settlement school
Settlement schools are social reform institutions established in rural Appalachia in the early 20th century with the purpose of educating Mountain whites, mountain children and improving their isolated rural communities.
Settlement schools have p ...
, social reform institutions established in rural Appalachia in the early 20th century
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Settler colonialism
Settler colonialism is a logic and structure of displacement by Settler, settlers, using colonial rule, over an environment for replacing it and its indigenous peoples with settlements and the society of the settlers.
Settler colonialism is ...
, replacing the original population with a new society of settlers
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Soil consolidation
Soil consolidation refers to the soil mechanics, mechanical process by which soil changes volume gradually in response to a change in pressure. This happens because soil is a three-phase material. The first phase consists of soil grains, and a ...
, a process by which soils decrease in volume
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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 wer ...
, occupying an abandoned building
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Structured settlement, a negotiated financial or insurance arrangement
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