Settlement

Settlement may refer to:

• Settlement as in Cambridge House or Bermondsey Settlement, a charitable enterprise set up by a university or other body to help the poor, as part of the Settlement movement
• Human settlement, a community where people live
• Settlement (structural), the distortion or disruption of parts of a building
• Closing (real estate), the final step in executing a real estate transaction
• 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
• Israeli settlement, Jewish civilian communities built on land occupied by Israel

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
• Settler colonialism, replacing the original population with a new society of settlers
• 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
• Sedentism, the practice of living in one place for a long time
• Squatting, occupying an abandoned building
• Structured settlement, a negotiated financial or insurance arrangement
• Consolidation (soil), a process by which soils decrease in volume