Definition of "settlements" []

• Plural form of settlement. (noun)

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• "[6] Thus the use the nation has for new settlements and acquisitions in North America is for the great increase of the people who are already there, and to enable them to subsist _by a dependance upon her_; which they can never do, _unless they extend their settlements_."
• "Manóboland, with the exception of such settlements as have been formed by non-Christian Manóbos in the vicinity of Christian _settlements_ and usually situated at the head of navigation on the tributaries of the"
• "Thus Obama presses for benevolent eugenics - needless to say for our own good - when insisting we forthwith freeze all construction and effectively end natural growth in what he calls settlements, including significant swaths of Jerusalem."