SETTLE

(PAY) [verb] - to pay (esp. money owed or claimed)Please settle your account/bill without further delay. [T]It took the insurance company months to settle my claim. [T]I don't know when I'm going to be able to settle all my debts. [T](formal) Payment of your account is now overdue, and we must ask you to settle (= pay the money you owe) immediately. [I]Would you like to settle up (= pay the money you owe) now, sir? [I]You buy the tickets and I'll settle (up) with (= pay what I owe) you later. [I](legal) If someone settles money or property on someone, they formally give it to them.When my uncle died, he settled £1000 a year on me.(figurative) If you settle an account (with someone), you harm them in some way because they have harmed you in the past.This match will be an opportunity for France to settle their account with Brazil.Police think that the killings may be a result of accounts being settled between local gangs.