noun
1 official/legal agreement
ADJECTIVE
▪ final
▪ lasting , long-term , permanent
▪ comprehensive
▪
a lasting and comprehensive peace ~
▪ early
▪ temporary
▪ amicable , friendly ( BrE ), peaceful
▪ just , reasonable , satisfactory ( esp. BrE )
▪ compromise
▪ negotiated
▪ global ( law )
▪
a proposed $100-million global ~ of a class action suit
▪ constitutional ( esp. BrE ), diplomatic , financial , legal , political
▪ compensation ( esp. BrE ), divorce , marriage ( esp. BrE )
▪ out-of-court
▪ generous
▪ huge , large
▪
They signed away their legal rights for a large cash ~.
▪ cash
▪ peace
▪ post-war
▪ pay ( esp. BrE ), wage ( BrE )
▪
Nurses refused to accept a pay ~ less than the rate of inflation.
▪ dispute
VERB + SETTLEMENT
▪ achieve , agree , reach , secure
▪
Both parties hope to reach an amicable ~.
▪ make
▪
They made a financial ~ with the family in order to prevent a civil lawsuit.
▪ negotiate , produce
▪
The union has negotiated a temporary ~.
▪ seek
▪
Lawyers are seeking an out-of-court ~.
▪ offer , propose
▪ accept
▪ receive , win
▪
They won a ~ of $10.6 million.
▪ pay
▪
The company had to pay multi-million-dollar ~s to victims.
SETTLEMENT + NOUN
▪ agreement
▪
negotiations for a final ~ agreement
▪ offer
▪
a $50 000 pretrial ~ offer
PREPOSITION
▪ ~ of
▪
the peaceful ~ of a long-standing dispute
▪ under a/the ~
▪
a beneficiary under the ~
▪ ~ with
▪
They have reached a ~ with the government.
PHRASES
▪ in ~ of
▪
They agreed to pay $8 million in ~ of the claim by Duqual.
▪
a cheque in ~ of the amount owing ( BrE )
▪ the terms of the ~
2 place where people have come to live
ADJECTIVE
▪ ancient , early
▪ land
▪ agricultural , rural
▪ urban
▪ coastal
▪ isolated , outlying
▪ large , small
▪ human
▪
the earliest urban human ~ in the world
▪ European , Jewish , etc.
▪ permanent
▪ illegal
▪ penal ( esp. BrE )
VERB + SETTLEMENT
▪ establish , found
▪
The Romans established a ~ on the south shore.
SETTLEMENT + VERB
▪ grow up
▪
A ~ grew up around the castle.
SETTLEMENT + NOUN
▪ patterns
▪
early ~ patterns in South America
▪ site ( esp. BrE )