settlement

settlement
noun
1 official/legal agreement
ADJECTIVE
▪ final
▪ lasting, long-term, permanent
▪ comprehensive
▪

a lasting and comprehensive peace settlement

▪ early
▪ temporary
▪ amicable, friendly (BrE), peaceful
▪ just, reasonable, satisfactory (esp. BrE)
▪ compromise
▪ negotiated
▪ global (law)
▪

a proposed $100-million global settlement of a class action suit

▪ constitutional (esp. BrE), diplomatic, financial, legal, political
▪ compensation (esp. BrE), divorce, marriage (esp. BrE)
▪ out-of-court
▪ generous
▪ huge, large
▪

They signed away their legal rights for a large cash settlement.

▪ cash
▪ peace
▪ post-war
▪ pay (esp. BrE), wage (BrE)
▪

Nurses refused to accept a pay settlement less than the rate of inflation.

▪ dispute
VERB + SETTLEMENT
▪ achieve, agree, reach, secure
▪

Both parties hope to reach an amicable settlement.

▪ make
▪

They made a financial settlement with the family in order to prevent a civil lawsuit.

▪ negotiate, produce
▪

The union has negotiated a temporary settlement.

▪ seek
▪

Lawyers are seeking an out-of-court settlement.

▪ offer, propose
▪ accept
▪ receive, win
▪

They won a settlement of $10.6 million.

▪ pay
▪

The company had to pay multi-million-dollar settlements to victims.

SETTLEMENT + NOUN
▪ agreement
▪

negotiations for a final settlement agreement

▪ offer
▪

a $50 000 pretrial settlement offer

PREPOSITION
▪ settlement of
▪

the peaceful settlement of a long-standing dispute

▪ under a/the settlement
▪

a beneficiary under the settlement

▪ settlement with
▪

They have reached a settlement with the government.

PHRASES
▪ in settlement of
▪

They agreed to pay $8 million in settlement of the claim by Duqual.

▪

a cheque in settlement of the amount owing (BrE)

▪ the terms of the settlement
2 place where people have come to live
ADJECTIVE
▪ ancient, early
▪ land
▪ agricultural, rural
▪ urban
▪ coastal
▪ isolated, outlying
▪ large, small
▪ human
▪

the earliest urban human settlement in the world

▪ European, Jewish, etc.
▪ permanent
▪ illegal
▪ penal (esp. BrE)
VERB + SETTLEMENT
▪ establish, found
▪

The Romans established a settlement on the south shore.

SETTLEMENT + VERB
▪ grow up
▪

A settlement grew up around the castle.

SETTLEMENT + NOUN
▪ patterns
▪

early settlement patterns in South America

▪ site (esp. BrE)

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