termination of a business operation by using its assets to discharge its liabilities | location of a colony of the United Kingdom on a limestone promontory at the southern tip of Spain; strategically important because it can control the entrance of ships into the Mediterranean; one of the Pillars of Hercules |
the act of colonizing; the establishment of colonies | |
something settled or resolved; the outcome of decision making | |
a conclusive resolution of a matter and disposition of it | |
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 | |
a community of people smaller than a town | |
an area where a group of families live together | |