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.
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A geographical area politically controlled by a distant country.
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Examples for "settlement "
Examples for "settlement "
1 In its last two years, National reached 30 settlement milestones per year.
2 RMB trade settlement has been growing quickly over the past several years.
3 He won a settlement far larger than many experts thought was possible.
4 Mr McAteer reached a settlement agreement with Anglo over a year ago.
5 The settlement of the civil case is unrelated to the criminal case.
1 The colony is breeding fast, often causing a problem for local residents.
2 A ship or some small colony is having problems and needs help.
3 The former Portuguese colony has seen several coups since independence in 1974.
4 The construction of the cells improves; the colony grows, the comfort increases.
5 A little later the white colony on the mesa was in darkness.
6 The former British colony has seen four months of often-violent anti-government protests.
7 Be sure to check out the African penguin colony at Stony Point.
8 The new colony was called Georgia, in honor of King George II.
9 Sarkozy said France had been wary of interfering in a former colony .
10 Only select colonists were given access to news from life outside colony .
11 Cuba, a little over 100 years ago, was a colony of Spain.
12 The colony had now several of the Indians detained in the fort.
13 East Timor, once a Portuguese colony , became an independent state in 2002.
14 At one colony devotees come to morning exercises swathed in common bathrobe.
15 Again, they want a colony free from the government sphere of influence.
16 The colony would rarely need the protein synthesizer from this time forward.
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