• termination of a business operation by using its assets to discharge its liabilities
• the act of colonizing; the establishment of colonies; "the British colonization of America"
• something settled or resolved; the outcome of decision making; "the finally reached a Settlement with the union"; "they never did achieve a final resolution of their differences"; "he needed to grieve before he could achieve a sense of closure"
• a conclusive resolution of a matter and disposition of it
• a community of people smaller than a town
• 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
• an area where a group of families live together

'Settlement' in other languages