Fitting vs Settlement - What's the difference?
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(informal, US, with infinitive) Ready, preparing.
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Ready, appropriate, or in keeping
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The act of trying on clothes to inspect or adjust the fit.
(manufacturing) The process of applying craft methods such as skilled filing to the making and assembling of machines or other products.
(chiefly, British) Domestic moveable piece of furniture, which can be taken along when moving out, US furnishing..
The state of being settled.
A colony that is newly established; a place or region newly settled.
A community of people living together, such as a hamlet, village, town, or city.
(architecture) The gradual sinking of a building. Fractures or dislocations caused by settlement.
(finance) The delivery of goods by the seller and payment for them by the buyer, under a previously agreed trade or transaction or contract entered into.
(legal) A disposition of property, or the act of granting it.
(legal) A settled place of abode; residence; a right growing out of legal residence.
(legal) A resolution of a dispute.
Fitting is a related term of settlement.
As nouns the difference between fitting and settlement
is that fitting is a small detachable part of a device or machine while settlement is the state of being settled.As a verb fitting
is .As an adjective fitting
is ready, appropriate, or in keeping.fitting
English
Alternative forms
* (ready) fittin', fittinVerb
(head)- I'm fitting to go home and sleep.
Synonyms
* (ready) fixing to (see also going to)Adjective
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Noun
(en noun)- the fittings of a church or study