different between settlement vs consideration

English

Etymology

settle +? -ment

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?set.l.m?nt/
• Hyphenation: settle?ment

Noun

settlement (plural settlements)

1. The act of settling.
2. The state of being settled.
3. A colony that is newly established; a place or region newly settled.
4. A community of people living together, such as a hamlet, village, town, or city.
5. (architecture) The gradual sinking of a building. Fractures or dislocations caused by settlement.
6. (finance) The delivery of goods by the seller and payment for them by the buyer, under a previously agreed trade or transaction or contract entered into.
7. (law) A disposition of property, or the act of granting it.
8. (law) A settled place of abode; residence; a right growing out of legal residence.
9. (law) A resolution of a dispute.

Synonyms

• (A resolution of a dispute): arrangement

Hyponyms

• See also Thesaurus:settlement

Derived terms

• settlement agreement
• settlement house

Related terms

• settler

Translations

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French consideracion, from Latin c?ns?der?ti?. Synchronically analyzable as consider +? -ation.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?n?s?d???e???n/
• Hyphenation: con?sid?er?ation
• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

consideration (countable and uncountable, plural considerations)

1. The thought process of considering, of taking multiple or specified factors into account (with of being the main corresponding adposition).

   Synonyms: deliberation, thought
2. Something considered as a reason or ground for a (possible) decision.

   Synonyms: factor, motive, reason

3. The tendency to consider others.

4. A payment or other recompense for something done.

5. (law) A matter of inducement for something promised; something valuable given as recompense for a promise, which causes the promise to become binding as a contract.
6. Importance, claim to notice, regard.
   • 1919, W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence, chapter 54

     [...] settled down on a small property he had near Quimper to live for the rest of his days in peace; but the failure of an attorney left him suddenly penniless, and neither he nor his wife was willing to live in penury where they had enjoyed consideration.

Related terms

Translations

Middle French

Noun

consideration f (plural considerations)

1. Alternative form of consyderation