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Settlement may refer to:

• Human settlement, a community where people live
• Settlement (structural), downward movement of a structure's foundation
• Settlement (finance), where securities are delivered against payment of money
• Settlement (litigation), a resolution between disputing parties about a legal case
• Settlement (trust), a deed whereby property is given by a settlor into trust
• Thomson Bay Settlement, Rottnest Island, Western Australia, also known as simply The Settlement
• Closing (real estate), the final step in executing a real estate transaction

See also

• All pages with titles beginning with Settlement
• All pages with titles containing Settlement
• 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
• Sedentism, the practice of living in one place for a long time
• 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
• Settler colonialism, replacing the original population with a new society of settlers
• Soil consolidation, a process by which soils decrease in volume
• Squatting, occupying an abandoned building
• Structured settlement, a negotiated financial or insurance arrangement

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