A body of people who settle far from home but maintain ties with their homeland; inhabitants remain nationals of their home state but are not literally under the home state's system of government.

synonym: colony.

Roget 184: location, localization; lodgment; deposition, reposition; stowage, package; collocation; packing, lading; establishment, settlement, installation; fixation; insertion etc. 300.    habitat, environment, surroundings (situation) 183; circumjacence etc. 227^†.    anchorage, mooring, encampment.    plantation, colony, settlement, cantonment; colonization, domestication, situation; habitation etc. (abode) 189; cohabitation; a local habitation and a name" [Midsummer Night's Dream]; endenization^†, naturalization.    ... show more

Roget 188: inhabitant; resident, residentiary^†; dweller, indweller^†; addressee; occupier, occupant; householder, lodger, inmate, tenant, incumbent, sojourner, locum tenens, commorant^†; settler, squatter, backwoodsman, colonist; islander; denizen, citizen; burgher, oppidan^†, cockney, cit, townsman, burgess; villager; cottager, cottier^†, cotter; compatriot; backsettler^†, boarder; hotel keeper, innkeeper; habitant; paying guest; planter.    native, indigene, aborigines, autochthones^†; Englishman, John Bull; newcomer etc. (stranger) 57.    aboriginal, American^†, Caledonian, Cambrian, Canadian, Canuck [Slang], downeaster [U.S.], Scot, Scotchman, Hibernian, Irishman, Welshman, Uncle Sam, Yankee, Brother Jonathan.    garrison, crew; population; people etc. (mankind) 372; colony, settlement; household; mir^†.    ... show more

Roget 762: consent; assent etc. 488; acquiescence; approval etc. 931; compliance, agreement, concession; yieldance^†, yieldingness^†; accession, acknowledgment, acceptance, agnition^†.    settlement, ratification, confirmation, adjustment.    permit etc. (permission) 760; promise etc. 768.    ... show more

Roget 769: compact, contract, agreement, bargain; affidation^†; pact, paction^†; bond, covenant, indenture; bundobast^†, deal.    stipulation, settlement, convention; compromise, cartel.    Protocol, treaty, concordat, Zollverein [G.], Sonderbund [G.], charter, Magna Charta [Lat.], Progmatic Sanction, customs union, free trade region; General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, GATT; most favored nation status.    negotiation etc. (bargaining) 794; diplomacy etc. (mediation) 724; negotiator etc. (agent) 758.    ratification, completion, signature, seal, sigil [Lat.], signet.    ... show more

Roget 771: security; guaranty, guarantee; gage, warranty, bond, tie, pledge, plight, mortgage, collateral, debenture, hypothecation, bill of sale, lien, pawn, pignoration^†; real security; vadium^†.    stake, deposit, earnest, handsel, caution.    promissory note; bill, bill of exchange; I.   O.U.; personal security, covenant, specialty; parole etc. (promise) 768.    acceptance, indorsement^†, signature, execution, stamp, seal.    sponsor, cosponsor, sponsion^†, sponsorship; surety, bail; mainpernor^†, hostage; godchild, godfather, godmother.    recognizance; deed of indemnity, covenant of indemnity.    authentication, verification, warrant, certificate, voucher, docket, doquet^†; record etc. 551; probate, attested copy.    receipt; acquittance, quittance; discharge, release.    muniment^†, title deed, instrument; deed, deed poll; assurance, indenture; charter etc. (compact) 769; charter poll; paper, parchment, settlement, will, testament, last will and testament, codicil.    ... show more

Roget 780: property, possession, suum cuique [Lat.], meum et tuum [Lat.].    ownership, proprietorship, lordship; seignority^†; empire etc. (dominion) 737.    interest, stake, estate, right, title, claim, demand, holding; tenure etc. (possession) 777; vested interest, contingent interest, beneficial interest, equitable interest; use, trust, benefit; legal estate, equitable estate; seizin [Law], seisin [Law].    absolute interest, paramount estate, freehold; fee tail, fee simple; estate in fee, estate in tail, estate tail; estate in tail male, estate in tail female, estate in tail general.    limitation, term, lease, settlement, strict settlement, particular estate; estate for life, estate for years, estate pur autre vie [Fr.]; remainder, reversion, expectancy, possibility.    dower, dowry, jointure^†, appanage, inheritance, heritage, patrimony, alimony; legacy etc. (gift) 784; Falcidian law, paternal estate, thirds.    assets, belongings, means, resources, circumstances; wealth etc. 803; money etc. 800; what one is worth, what one will cut up for; estate and effects.    landed property, landed real estate property; realty; land, lands; tenements; hereditaments; corporeal hereditaments, incorporeal hereditaments; acres; ground etc. (earth) 342; acquest^†, messuage, toft^†.    territory, state, kingdom, principality, realm, empire, protectorate, sphere of influence.    manor, honor, domain, demesne; farm, plantation, hacienda; allodium etc. (free) 748^†; fief, fieff^†, feoff^†, feud, zemindary^†, dependency; arado^†, merestead^†, ranch.    free lease-holds, copy lease-holds; folkland^†; chattels real; fixtures, plant, heirloom; easement; right of common, right of user.    personal property, personal estate, personal effects; personalty, chattels, goods, effects, movables; stock, stock in trade; things, traps, rattletraps, paraphernalia; equipage etc. 633.    parcels, appurtenances.    impedimenta; luggage, baggage; bag and baggage; pelf; cargo, lading.    rent roll; income etc. (receipts) 810; maul and wedges [U.S.].    patent, copyright; chose in action; credit etc. 805; debt etc. 806.    ... show more

Dutch: nederzetting, kolonie
Polish: osada

A community of people smaller than a town.

synonyms: small town, village.

Polish: wieś

A conclusive resolution of a matter and disposition of it.

Dutch: arrangement, oplossing, regeling
Polish: ugoda

The act of colonizing; the establishment of colonies.

synonyms: colonisation, colonization.

Dutch: kolonisatie
Polish: osiedlenie się

Something settled or resolved; the outcome of decision making:
— They finally reached a settlement with the union.

synonyms: closure, resolution.

Polish: rozstrzygnięcie

An area where a group of families live together.

Dutch: kern, kolonie, nederzetting, vestiging
Polish: osada

Termination of a business operation by using its assets to discharge its liabilities.

synonym: liquidation.

Roget 807: payment, defrayment^†; discharge; acquittance, quittance; settlement, clearance, liquidation, satisfaction, reckoning, arrangement.    acknowledgment, release; receipt, receipt in full, receipt in full of all demands; voucher.    salary, compensation, remuneration (reward) 973.    repayment, reimbursement, retribution; pay etc. (reward) 973; money paid etc. (expenditure) 809.    ready money etc. (cash) 800; stake, remittance, installment.    payer, liquidator etc. 801.    pay cash, pay cash on the barrelhead.    ... show more

Dutch: liquidatie
Polish: likwidacja