Settlement

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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
- Urban settlement (disambiguation)
- Rural settlement
- Urban-type settlement
Settlement (structural), the gradual distortions created in a structure

Demography

Early human migration
- Settlement of the Americas
Squatting, communities established without legal right on unoccupied or abandoned property
Settler colonialism
- European colonization of the Americas
- French settlement of Algeria
- Israeli settlement, communities inhabited by Israeli Jews in territory that came under Israel's control as a result of the 1967 Six-Day War
- Prussian Settlement Commission aimed at Germanization of Polish-inhabited areas from 1886 to 1924
- Turkish settlers in Northern Cyprus, as a result of the 1974 Turkish invasion of Cyprus

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 (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