名词

1. (争议双方的)正式协议，和解
A settlement is an official agreement between two sides who were involved in a conflict or argument.

2. (通过赔偿等达成的)庭外和解
A settlement is an agreement to end a disagreement or dispute without going to a court of law, for example by offering someone money.

3. (欠款的)偿付，支付，结算，清偿
The settlement of a debt is the act of paying back money that you owe.

4. 定居点;聚居地
A settlement is a place where people have come to live and have built homes.

5. 移民;殖民;开拓
The settlement of a group of people is the process in which they settle in a place where people from their country have never lived before.

1. termination of a business operation by using its assets to discharge its liabilities

Synonym: liquidation

2. the act of colonizing
the establishment of colonies

e.g. the British colonization of America

Synonym: colonizationcolonisation

3. something settled or resolved
the outcome of decision making

e.g. they finally reached a settlement with the union
they never did achieve a final resolution of their differences
he needed to grieve before he could achieve a sense of closure

Synonym: resolutionclosure

4. a conclusive resolution of a matter and disposition of it

5. a community of people smaller than a town

Synonym: villagesmall town

6. a body of people who settle far from home but maintain ties with their homeland
inhabitants remain nationals of their home state but are not literally under the home state's system of government

e.g. the American colony in Paris

Synonym: colony

7. an area where a group of families live together