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Plantation :: Plantation (n.) An original settlement in a new country; a colony.

Settlement :: Settlement (n.) The act or process of adjusting or determining; composure of doubts or differences; pacification; liquidation of accounts; arrangement; adjustment; as, settlement of a controversy, of accounts, etc..

Problem :: Problem (n.) A question proposed for solution; a matter stated for examination or proof; hence, a matter difficult of solution or settlement; a doubtful case; a question involving doubt..

Colony :: Colony (n.) The district or country colonized; a settlement.

Settlement :: Settlement (n.) Bestowal, or giving possession, under legal sanction; the act of giving or conferring anything in a formal and permanent manner..

Resettlement :: Resettlement (n.) Act of settling again, or state of being settled again; as, the resettlement of lees..

Establishment :: Establishment (n.) The act of establishing; a ratifying or ordaining; settlement; confirmation.

Inhabitant :: Inhabitant (n.) One who has a legal settlement in a town, city, or parish; a permanent resident..

Arrangement :: Arrangement (n.) Settlement; adjustment by agreement; as, the parties have made an arrangement between themselves concerning their disputes; a satisfactory arrangement..

Intrusion :: Intrusion (n.) The settlement of a minister over 3 congregation without their consent.

Fine :: Fine (n.) A sum of money paid as the settlement of a claim, or by way of terminating a matter in dispute; especially, a payment of money imposed upon a party as a punishment for an offense; a mulct..

Settlement :: Settlement (n.) A settled place of abode; residence; a right growing out of residence; legal residence or establishment of a person in a particular parish or town, which entitles him to maintenance if a pauper, and subjects the parish or town to his support..

Postnuptial :: Postnuptial (a.) Being or happening after marriage; as, a postnuptial settlement on a wife..

Footing :: Footing (n.) Standing; position; established place; basis for operation; permanent settlement; foothold.

Probation :: Probation (n.) The trial of a ministerial candidate's qualifications prior to his ordination, or to his settlement as a pastor..

Back :: Back (a.) Being at the back or in the rear; distant; remote; as, the back door; back settlements..

Surrogate :: Surrogate (n.) In some States of the United States, an officer who presides over the probate of wills and testaments and yield the settlement of estates..

Convictism :: Convictism (n.) The policy or practice of transporting convicts to penal settlements.

Recorder :: Recorder (n.) The title of the chief judical officer of some cities and boroughs; also, of the chief justice of an East Indian settlement. The Recorder of London is judge of the Lord Mayor's Court, and one of the commissioners of the Central Criminal Court..

Settlement :: Settlement (n.) The act of peopling, or state of being peopled; act of planting, as a colony; colonization; occupation by settlers; as, the settlement of a new country..

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