settlements
英 ['setlmənts] 美 ['setlmənts]

n.

解决( settlement的名词复数 )；结算；金钱或财产的转让（契约）；移民

英英释义

settlement

• n.
  • 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

    同义词：colony

  • a community of people smaller than a town

    同义词：villagesmall town

  • a conclusive resolution of a matter and disposition of it
  • the act of colonizing; the establishment of colonies

    同义词：colonizationcolonisation

  • something settled or resolved; the outcome of decision making

    "the finally reached a settlement with the union"

    同义词：resolutionclosure

  • an area where a group of families live together
  • termination of a business operation by using its assets to discharge its liabilities

    同义词：liquidation

词组短语

bank for international settlements国际清算银行

权威例句

The rising tide: assessing the risks of climate change and human settlements in low elevation coastal zones
The Challenge of Slums: Global Report on Human Settlements 2003
...of slums : global report on human settlements ...
Surface settlements due to deformation of a tunnel in an elastic half plane
Settlements above tunnels in the United Kingdom-their magnitude and prediction
Engineering Geology of Norwegian Normally-Consolidated Marine Clays as Related to Settlements of Buildings
UN Habitat. (2009). Planning sustainable cities, global report on human settlements
Spatio-temporal dynamic patterns of farmland and rural settlements in Su-Xi-Chang region: implications for building a new countrysid...
Planning sustainable cities, global report on human settlements 2009
Cities and climate change : global report on human settlements 2011