• Consolidation (soil), a process by which soils decrease in volume
• Human settlement, a community where people live
  • Israeli settlement
    Israeli settlement
    An Israeli settlement is a Jewish civilian community built on land that was captured by Israel from Jordan, Egypt, and Syria during the 1967 Six-Day War and is considered occupied territory by the international community. Such settlements currently exist in the West Bank...
    
    , communities inhabited by Israeli Jews in territory that came under Israel's control as a result of the 1967 Six-Day War
  • Urban settlement (disambiguation)
  • Rural settlement
    Rural settlement
    The definition of a rural settlement depends on the country. In some countries, a rural settlement is any settlement in the areas defined as rural by a governmental office, e.g., by the national census bureau. This may include even rural towns...
    
    
• Settlement (closing), as in a real estate closing with transfer of title deed to the buyer
• Settlement (finance)
  Settlement (finance)
  Settlement of securities is a business process whereby securities or interests in securities are delivered, usually against payment of money, to fulfill contractual obligations, such as those arising under securities trades....
  
  , the process of exchanging the consideration for financial instruments once a transaction has been executed
• Settlement (structural)
  Settlement (structural)
  Settlement in a structure refers to the distortion or disruption of parts of a building due to either; unequal compression of its foundations, shrinkage such as that which occurs in timber framed buildings as the frame adjusts its moisture content, or by undue loads being applied to the building...
  
  , the gradual distortions created in a structure

• Settlement (litigation), an agreement or resolution of a dispute
• Settlement under the Poor Law
  Poor Law
  The English Poor Laws were a system of poor relief which existed in England and Wales that developed out of late-medieval and Tudor-era laws before being codified in 1587–98...
  
  , a person's place of origin or later established residence, being the Parish responsible for the person if destitute
• Settlement (trust)
  Settlement (trust)
  In the context of trusts, a settlement is a deed whereby real estate, land, or other property is given by a settlor into trust so that the beneficiary only has the limited right to the property , but usually has no right to transfer the land to another or leave it in their own will...
  
  , an instrument creating a trust

See also

• Act of Settlement
  Act of Settlement
  Act of Settlement may refer to:*Statute of Legal Settlement 1547, legislation regarding the settlement of the poor*Act for the Settlement of Ireland 1652, in response to the Irish Rebellion of 1641...
  
  , various legislation
• Settlement movement
  Settlement movement
  The settlement movement was a reformist social movement, beginning in the 1880s and peaking around the 1920s in England and the US, with a goal of getting the rich and poor in society to live more closely together in an interdependent community...
  
  , started in Victorian England, concerned with urban poverty
• Prussian Settlement Commission aimed at Germanization of Polish-inhabited areas from 1886 to 1924