increase vs settlement

increase

noun
  • For a quantity, the act or process of becoming larger 

  • The creation of one or more new stitches; see Increase (knitting). 

  • Offspring, progeny 

  • An amount by which a quantity is increased. 

verb
  • To multiply by the production of young; to be fertile, fruitful, or prolific. 

  • To become more nearly full; to show more of the surface; to wax. 

  • To make (a quantity, etc.) larger. 

  • (of a quantity, etc.) To become larger or greater. 

settlement

noun
  • The act of settling. 

  • A community of people living together, such as a hamlet, village, town, or city; a populated place. 

  • The state of being settled. 

  • A resolution of a dispute. 

  • A disposition of property, or the act of granting it. 

  • A mutual agreement to end a dispute without resorting to legal proceedings, also known as an out-of-court settlement or settling out of court. 

  • The gradual sinking of a building. Fractures or dislocations caused by settlement. 

  • 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. 

  • A settled place of abode; residence; a right growing out of legal residence. 

  • A colony that is newly established; a place or region newly settled (even in past times). 

  • A site where people used to live together in ancient times; an ancient simple kind of village. 

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