noun. 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 the American colony in Paris |
noun. a community of people smaller than a town |
noun. a conclusive resolution of a matter and disposition of it |
noun. the act of colonizing; the establishment of colonies the British colonization of America |
noun. something settled or resolved; the outcome of decision making they finally reached a settlement with the union|they never did achieve a final resolution of their differences|he needed to grieve before he could achieve a sense of closure |
noun. an area where a group of families live together |
noun. termination of a business operation by using its assets to discharge its liabilities |
