different between settlement vs statement

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

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?ste?tm(?)nt/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?ste?tm?nt/
• Rhymes: -e?tm?nt
• Hyphenation: state?ment

Etymology 1

From state +? -ment.

Noun

statement (plural statements)

1. A declaration or remark.
2. A presentation of opinion or position.
3. (finance) A document that summarizes financial activity.

4. (computing) An instruction in a computer program.
   • 1989, M. K. Roy, Debabrata Ghosh Dastidar, COBOL Programming (page 174)

     However, it is the responsibility of the programmer to ensure that the control ultimately reaches the last statement of the range.

Synonyms

• See Thesaurus:statement

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 2

Back-formation from statementing or back-formation from statemented.

Verb

statement (third-person singular simple present statements, present participle statementing, simple past and past participle statemented)

1. (transitive) To provide an official document of a proposition, especially in the UK a Statement of Special Educational Needs.

See also

• Special education in England on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Further reading

• statement in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• statement in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• tentmates, testament