Talk:Settlement

message: Most of the links to "Settlement" require its basic meaning of "place of habitation", and the simplest way to deal with that is for "Settlement" to be an article about that sense of the word. This page seems to work better as "Settlement (disambiguation)", which it has been previously, so I have changed it back to that. Not really my area, but I will make a stub for "Settlement" asap, probably from other Wikis, in the hope that someone with more knowledge will work it up in due course.HeartofaDog 00:40, 3 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Disambiguation

message: The Oxford English Dictionary (1971 Compact Edition) defines 'settlement' (in the relevant part) as follows :
:"IV. An assemblage of persons settled in a locality.
::14. A community of the subjects of a state settled in a new country; a tract of country so settled, a colony, esp. one in its earlier stages.
:::b. Of a religious community.
::15. In the outlying districts of America and the colonies: a small village or collection of houses. Also, the huts forming the living quarters of the slaves on a plantation.
::16. An establishment in the poorer quarters of a large city where educated men and women live in daily personal contact with the working class for cooperation in social reform."
The Second College Edition of the American Heritage Dictionary defines 'settlement', in part, as:
:"2. a. Establishment, as of a person in a business or of people in a new region. 
::b. A newly colonized region.
:3. A small community."
On-line, see , , , ,  and . 
Nowhere do I see any support for the definition on the article page, "A specific location where people live, of any size, date or place". This definition looks like OR to me, which is not allowed in WP. If anyone can cite a reliable published source for that definition, please post it here. -- Donald Albury 00:55, 19 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: In what way does the definition you dislike - "A specific location where people live, of any size, date or place" - differ significantly from the one you quote from the OED: "IV. An assemblage of persons settled in a locality."? HeartofaDog 00:58, 19 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Read that again. IV is a category of the definition, with three meanings under it, 14, 15 and 16. The OED definition has four categories, "I. The placing of persons or things in a fixed or permanent position," with 6 distinct meanings, "II. Arrangement or reglation of affairs," with four distinct meanings, "III. The act of becoming set or still, sinking, subsiding, etc.", with three distinct meanings, and "IV. An assemblage of persons settled in a locality." In the last category, it gives just three meanings: a colony, especially a new one (14), a small village or collection of houses (15), and a settlement house (16). Nowhere does it say that any community bigger than a "small village" is called a "settlement". Note also that all of the other dictionaries I cited or linked to agree that a settlement is either a colony or a community no bigger than a village. -- Donald Albury 03:19, 19 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Although I haven't come across an explicit definition yet, the United Nations Human Settlements Programme  seems to subsume all sizes of human habitats within its scope. older ≠ wiser 19:34, 20 January 2007 (UTC)

text: Would you care to share some sites that support that? -- Donald Albury 19:05, 22 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Definition of 'settlement' 

message: I've read this sentence several times and I still can't figure out what it means:
"Settlement (finance), the process of exchanging the consideration for financial instruments once a transaction has been executed"
About half of this page is written in legal jargon.  Please remember we are creating an encyclopedia for the average person, not a law dictionary.  Could some one please translate this page into plain English?  Thank you. Rissa, Guild of Copy Editors  (talk) 21:21, 28 July 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Settlement