off-base vs settling

off-base

settling

noun
  • The reckoning or settlement of accounts; the paying out of gambling winnings. 

  • The act of one who, or that which, settles; the act of establishing oneself, of colonizing, subsiding, adjusting, etc. 

  • Dregs; sediment. 

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