settlement vs agreement

agreement vs settlement

settlement and agreement both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
settlement	Yes	No	No	No
agreement	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, agreement is a hypernym of settlement; that is, agreement is a word with a broader meaning than settlement:

settlement: a conclusive resolution of a matter and disposition of it
agreement: the statement (oral or written) of an exchange of promises

Other hypernyms of settlement include understanding.

settlement (noun)	agreement (noun)
termination of a business operation by using its assets to discharge its liabilities	compatibility of observations
the act of colonizing; the establishment of colonies	the thing arranged or agreed to
something settled or resolved; the outcome of decision making	the verbal act of agreeing
a conclusive resolution of a matter and disposition of it	the statement (oral or written) of an exchange of promises
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 determination of grammatical inflection on the basis of word relations
a community of people smaller than a town	harmony of people's opinions or actions or characters
an area where a group of families live together

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