Synonyms of the word

settlement

• n. The act of settling.
• n. The state of being settled.
• n. A colony that is newly established; a place or region newly settled.
• n. A community of people living together, such as a hamlet, village, town, or city.
• n. (architecture) The gradual sinking of a building. Fractures or dislocations caused by settlement.
• n. (finance) The delivery of goods by the seller and payment for them by the buyer, under a previously agreed…
• n. (law) A disposition of property, or the act of granting it.
• n. (law) A settled place of abode; residence; a right growing out of legal residence.
• n. (law) A resolution of a dispute.

agreement

• n. (countable) An understanding between entities to follow a specific course of conduct.
• n. (uncountable) A state whereby several parties share a view or opinion; the state of not contradicting…
• n. (uncountable, law) A legally binding contract enforceable in a court of law.
• n. (uncountable, linguistics) Rules that exist in many languages that force some parts of a sentence to be…
• n. (obsolete, chiefly in the plural) An agreeable quality.

body

• n. Physical frame.
• n. Main section.
• n. Coherent group.
• n. Material entity.
• n. (printing) The shank of a type, or the depth of the shank (by which the size is indicated).
• n. (geometry) A three-dimensional object, such as a cube or cone.
• v. To give body or shape to something.
• v. To construct the bodywork of a car.
• v. (transitive) To embody.

closure

• n. An event or occurrence that signifies an ending.
• n. A feeling of completeness; the experience of an emotional conclusion, usually to a difficult period.
• n. A device to facilitate temporary and repeatable opening and closing.
• n. (programming) An abstraction that represents a function within an environment, a context consisting of…
• n. (mathematics) The smallest set that both includes a given subset and possesses some given property.
• n. (topology, of a set) The smallest closed set which contains the given set.
• n. The act of shutting; a closing.
• n. That which closes or shuts; that by which separate parts are fastened or closed.
• n. (obsolete) That which encloses or confines; an enclosure.
• n. A method of ending a parliamentary debate and securing an immediate vote upon a measure before a legislative…

colonisation

• n. (British spelling) Alternative spelling of colonization.

colonization

• n. The process of establishing a colony.

colony

• n. Governmental unit created on land of another country owned by colonists from a country.
• n. A settlement of emigrants who move to a new place, but remain culturally tied to their original place…
• n. Region or governmental unit created by another country and generally ruled by another country.
• n. A group of people with the same interests or ethnic origin concentrated in a particular geographic area.
• n. A group of organisms of same or different species living together in close association.
• n. A collective noun for rabbits.

community

• n. A group sharing a common understanding and often the same language, manners, tradition and law. See civilization.
• n. A commune, or residential or religious collective.
• n. The condition of having certain attitudes and interests in common.
• n. (ecology) A group of interdependent organisms inhabiting the same region and interacting with each other.
• n. (Internet) A group of people interacting by electronic means for social, professional, educational or…
• n. (obsolete) Common possession or enjoyment; participation.
• n. (obsolete) common character; likeness.
• n. (obsolete) commonness; frequency.

conclusion

• n. The end, finish, close or last part of something.
• n. The outcome or result of a process or act.
• n. A decision reached after careful thought.
• n. (logic) In an argument or syllogism, the proposition that follows as a necessary consequence of the premises.
• n. (obsolete) An experiment, or something from which a conclusion may be drawn.
• n. (law) The end or close of a pleading, e.g. the formal ending of an indictment, "against the peace", etc.
• n. (law) An estoppel or bar by which a person is held to a particular position.

constitution

• n. The act, or process of setting something up, or establishing something; the composition or structure of…
• n. (government) The formal or informal system of primary principles and laws that regulates a government…
• n. (law) A legal document describing such a formal system.
• n. The general health of a person.
• n. A person's physique or temperament.

deciding

• v. present participle of decide.

ending

• v. present participle of end.
• n. A termination or conclusion.
• n. The last part of something.
• n. (grammar) The last morpheme of a word, added to some base to make an inflected form (such as -ing in "ending").

establishment

• n. The act of establishing; a ratifying or ordaining; settlement; confirmation.
• n. The state of being established, founded, etc.; fixed state.
• n. That which is established; as a form of government, a permanent organization, business or force, or the…
• n. (slang) The establishment: the ruling class or authority group in a society; especially, an entrenched…

formation

• n. Something possessing structure or form.
• n. The act of assembling a group or structure.
• n. (geology) A rock or face of a mountain.
• n. (military) A grouping of military units or smaller formations under a command, such as a brigade, division,…
• n. (military) An arrangement of moving troops, ships, or aircraft, such as a wedge, line abreast, or echelon…
• n. (sports) An arrangement of players designed to facilitate certain plays.
• n. The process of influencing or guiding a person to a deeper understanding of a particular vocation.
• n. The process during which something comes into being and gains its characteristics.

liquidation

• n. The act of exchange of an asset of lesser liquidity with a more liquid one, such as cash.
• n. The selling of the assets of a business as part of the process of dissolving the business.

organisation

• n. British spelling standard spelling of organization.

organization

• n. (uncountable) The quality of being organized.
• n. (uncountable) The way in which something is organized, such as a book or an article.
• n. (countable) A group of people or other legal entities with an explicit purpose and written rules.
• n. (countable) A group of people consciously cooperating.
• n. (baseball) A major league club and all its farm teams.

resolution

• n. A strong will, determination.
• n. The state of being resolute.
• n. A statement of intent, a vow.
• n. The act of discerning detail.
• n. (computing, photography) The degree of fineness with which an image can be recorded or produced, often…
• n. (computing) The number of pixels in an image being stored or displayed.
• n. (computing) The process of determining the meaning of a symbol or address; lookup.
• n. (mathematics) The act or process of solving; solution.
• n. A formal statement adopted by an assembly, or during any other formal meeting.
• n. (sciences) The separation of the constituent parts (of a spectrum etc).
• n. (sciences) The degree of fineness of such a separation.
• n. (music) Progression from dissonance to consonance; a chord to which such progression is made.
• n. The moment in which the conflict ends and the outcome of the action is clear.
• n. (medicine) In a pathological process, the phase during which pathogens and damaged tissues are removed…

termination

• n. The process of terminating or the state of being terminated.
• n. The process of firing an employee; ending one's employment at a business for any reason.
• n. An end in time; a conclusion.
• n. An end in space; an edge or limit.
• n. An outcome or result.
• n. The last part of a word; an ending, a desinence; a suffix.
• n. (medicine) An induced abortion.
• n. (obsolete, rare) A word, a term.
• n. The ending up of a polypeptid chain.

understanding

• n. (uncountable) Mental, sometimes emotional process of comprehension, assimilation of knowledge, which is…
• n. (countable) Reason or intelligence, ability to grasp the full meaning of knowledge, ability to infer.
• n. (countable) Opinion, judgement or outlook.
• n. (countable) An informal contract; mutual agreement.
• n. (countable) A reconciliation of differences.
• n. (uncountable) Sympathy.
• n. All that people individually sense and feel of themselves.
• adj. Showing compassion.
• v. present participle of understand.

village

• n. A rural habitation of size between a hamlet and a town.
• n. (Britain) A rural habitation that has a church, but no market.
• n. (Australia) A planned community such as a retirement community or shopping district.