Settlement and Term

Settlement

Settlement noun - An arrangement about action to be taken.

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Term and settlement are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Term" instead a noun "Settlement".

Nearby Words: settle, settled, settling, settler

Term noun - A fixed period of time during which a person holds a job or position.

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Settlement and term are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Settlement" instead a noun "Term".

Nearby Words: termless, termed, termer

old	old settlement	old term
full	full settlement	full term
similar	similar settlement	similar term
original	original settlement	original term
Other adjectives: legal, single, real, ancient, new, final, neutral, next, last, local.

The term comes from the Vigilance Committees set up in the old west when settlement had outrun the law.

Source: Vigilante Man
Large territories would be annexed and ethnically-cleansed to make room for German settlement in the short-medium term, and the northern Baltic states and Ukraine would be puppet states under German political and economic domination.

Source: Useful Notes / The Holocaust

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