settlement

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Estimated CEFR level: B1 — Intermediate

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noun 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
noun a community of people smaller than a town
noun a conclusive resolution of a matter and disposition of it

From settle + -ment.

SETTLEMENT OF OUR BOUNDARIES XXI. — A School History of the United States, John Bach McMaster
A GENERAL SETTLEMENT OF ACCOUNTS. — Klondike Nuggets, and How Two Boys Secured Them, Edward Sylvester Ellis
"Why does Opechancanough send us back to the settlements?" — The Literary World Seventh Reader, Unknown

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