Preposition: of

• dispute: We shall continue to work for the peaceful and just settlement of disputes and the strengthening of international cooperation.

Converse of object

• negotiate: They sought always to exhaust every possibility of a negotiated settlement.

• nucleate: No significant nucleated settlement has survived at either of the early manorial centers, both of which lie adjacent to their respective parish churches.

• reach: In five minutes ' walk from the wharf I could reach the undisturbed settlements of Nature.

• agree: Your representative may agree a settlement on your behalf.

• mediate: Q: What if the mediated settlement is unfair or unjust?

• found: In so doing, he founded the earliest European settlement in the interior of what is now the United States.

Adjective modifier

• out-of-court: Affected workers have received out-of-court settlements ranging from several hundred pounds to more than £ 100,000.

• constitutional: Together, these will form a new constitutional settlement to empower frontline ward councilors in Westminster.

• prehistoric: The AONB's headlands and hilltops show many traces of prehistoric settlement.

• Neolithic: New evidence for the Neolithic settlement of Marawah Island, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.

• peaceful: We will work to defeat terrorism wherever it occurs and to advance economic development, democratic reforms and peaceful settlement of regional disputes.

Modifies a noun

• pattern: The opening of the Cambrian Railroad in 1867 brought immense changes to the settlement patterns of the coastal strip.

Noun used with modifier

• devolution: Scotland needs a devolution settlement in which lines of accountability are crystal clear.

• divorce: In the divorce settlement I got both sets of forks.

• Viking: You will also be able to experience the Viking style of life in the Viking settlement at the center.

• squatter: Many migrants are forced to settle in shanty towns and squatter settlements.

• dispute: Its dispute settlement body is in effect a world trade court.

• peace: The ultimate shape of a Middle East peace settlement is well known.