What's the difference between outpost and settlement?

Outpost


Definition:

  • (n.) A post or station without the limits of a camp, or at a distance from the main body of an army, for observation of the enemy.
  • (n.) The troops placed at such a station.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Moallem’s news conference came a day after jihadis captured a major military air base in north-eastern Syria, eliminating the last government-held outpost in a province otherwise dominated by the Islamic State group.
  • (2) Beijing says the island outposts will serve maritime search and rescue missions, disaster relief, environmental protection as well as undefined military purposes.
  • (3) A cabinet majority is pushing for a new law that would “legalize” the illegal Jewish outposts on the West Bank – illegal even by Israeli standards because they were built on private Palestinian land.
  • (4) The European Space Agency astronaut, who is on his first mission to the orbiting outpost, thought the water was sweat, but Nasa groundstaff assured him it was not.
  • (5) Since the mid-90s, settlers have established dozens of outposts to prevent the transfer of land to the Palestinians.
  • (6) Of the more than 300 British service personnel killed in Afghanistan , more than 100 died in and around the Sangin outpost.
  • (7) When a local military outpost invited Kurdish youths to use their indoor football field, the boys declined.
  • (8) Last week, acclaimed Basque chefs Juan Mari Arzak and his daughter Elena, owners the famous Arzak restaurant in San Sebastián, opened Ametsa , their long awaited London outpost.
  • (9) If they have been taken and the person feels unwell, they should consult their doctor.” 'Hopeful' study of autism wins Samuel Johnson prize 2015 Read more MMS is sold by the self-styled Genesis II Church of Health and Healing , which is officially based in the Dominican Republic and claims a UK outpost in Rotherhithe, south-east London.
  • (10) Kerry’s comments reflect the growing fear among western nations that the continued instability in Libya has allowed Isis to gain ground in the country, which has become the terrorist group’s strongest outpost beyond Syria and Iraq.
  • (11) The biggest outposts in Bosnia have been the two Turkish-backed universities, which have mostly Turkish student bodies.
  • (12) Hoarfrost formed like starry ferns on the cavern ceiling of their outpost.
  • (13) Hawaii is an important strategic outpost for the US military.
  • (14) The paper assesses the impact of penal policy on trafficking and use of illicit drugs at different stages in the transformation of Nigeria from a colonial outpost to an independent nation.
  • (15) The outposts built outside the 135 core settlements are illegal under Israeli law but, according to B’Tselem, “the Civil Administration turns a blind eye to settlers’ building violations”.
  • (16) Pro-Gaddafi fighters fired mortars and rocket-propelled grenades at fighters for the interim government as they made a fresh attempt to take the town, one of the few remaining outposts loyal to the old regime.
  • (17) Everything must be agreed and coordinated.” The law has been pushed by Bennett’s party to prevent the demolition and relocation of the controversial Amona outpost , which is built on seized private Palestinian land, and which a court had ordered to be knocked down just before Christmas.
  • (18) Israel promised the US more than a decade ago to dismantle two dozen outposts built after 2001, including Migron.
  • (19) They are no longer needed in Helmand mainly because the number of British outposts has declined from 137 in 2010 to 11.
  • (20) The Village Market complex in Gigiri district, which is also home to the US embassy and a United Nations outpost, has cancelled its Halloween family party this weekend.

Settlement


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of setting, or the state of being settled.
  • (n.) Establishment in life, in business, condition, etc.; ordination or installation as pastor.
  • (n.) The act of peopling, or state of being peopled; act of planting, as a colony; colonization; occupation by settlers; as, the settlement of a new country.
  • (n.) The act or process of adjusting or determining; composure of doubts or differences; pacification; liquidation of accounts; arrangement; adjustment; as, settlement of a controversy, of accounts, etc.
  • (n.) Bestowal, or giving possession, under legal sanction; the act of giving or conferring anything in a formal and permanent manner.
  • (n.) A disposition of property for the benefit of some person or persons, usually through the medium of trustees, and for the benefit of a wife, children, or other relatives; jointure granted to a wife, or the act of granting it.
  • (n.) That which settles, or is settled, established, or fixed.
  • (n.) Matter that subsides; settlings; sediment; lees; dregs.
  • (n.) A colony newly established; a place or region newly settled; as, settlement in the West.
  • (n.) That which is bestowed formally and permanently; the sum secured to a person; especially, a jointure made to a woman at her marriage; also, in the United States, a sum of money or other property formerly granted to a pastor in additional to his salary.
  • (n.) The gradual sinking of a building, whether by the yielding of the ground under the foundation, or by the compression of the joints or the material.
  • (n.) Fractures or dislocations caused by settlement.
  • (n.) A settled place of abode; residence; a right growing out of residence; legal residence or establishment of a person in a particular parish or town, which entitles him to maintenance if a pauper, and subjects the parish or town to his support.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) JPMorgan did not reveal the terms of the settlement.
  • (2) As long as Israel refuses to cease settlement activities and to the release of the fourth group of Palestinian prisoners in accordance with our agreements, they leave us no choice but to insist that we will not remain the only ones committed to the implementation of these agreements, while Israel continuously violates them,” Abbas said.
  • (3) "We will respect the principle of multi-year [funding] settlements," Hunt told a Voice of the Listener and Viewer conference in London.
  • (4) During evidence in chief, he said the only people who would amend a settlement or information about a trade would be "the person who knew of the transaction, who would be the trader."
  • (5) In a 2011 interview with the Financial Times he said: “JPMorgan doesn’t have a chance in hell of not coming up with a big settlement.” He claimed: “There were people at the bank who knew what was going on.” The payment brings the total of fines imposed on JP Morgan to nearly $20bn in the past year.
  • (6) Gerson Zweifach, general counsel for both News Corp and 21st Century Fox , Murdoch’s film and TV business, said: “We are grateful that this matter has been concluded and acknowledge the fairness and professionalism of the Department of Justice throughout this investigation.” It is understood there has been no background settlement with the Department of Justice in order to avoid a full-blown investigation, contrary to speculation in New York over a year ago that the company was looking at a possible payment of over $850m.
  • (7) The filings do not contain any clues about the size of the settlement that the DoJ was hoping to reach with Barclays, although the bank is thought to have been prepared to pay up to $2bn (£1.6bn).
  • (8) The announcement comes amid mounting frustration in the international community over Israel’s continued settlement activity, regarded by many countries as illegal.
  • (9) Obama will meet with Binyamin Netanyahu and Mahmoud Abbas tomorrow as well, but US envoy George Mitchell has had no luck in recent weeks trying to persuade Netanyahu to compromise on the settlements.
  • (10) The environment is going to pay a high price for its settlement in the recent spending review."
  • (11) In the Commons on Monday , John Whittingdale, the culture secretary who only in February chaired the committee that concluded “No future licence fee negotiations must be conducted in the way of the 2010 settlement”, ducked the invitation to explain how exactly the same thing had just happened again.
  • (12) An additional 200,000 Jews live in settlements in East Jerusalem.
  • (13) "The priorities are public order, improved lives for the people of Libya and an inclusive, peaceful settlement led by the Libyan people."
  • (14) Further south is Ghadames, one of the most ancient settlements in north Africa , which Unesco calls “the pearl of the desert”.
  • (15) HIV-1 infection was 1.5 times more common in women than in men; 2.5% of the adult population in rural villages, 7.3% in roadside settlements and 11.8% in town were infected.
  • (16) In American football, however, more than 4,500 former NFL players sued their league for downplaying the dangers of concussion, and last year there was an out-of-court settlement for around £500m.
  • (17) Israel's illegal settlements are so entrenched that uprooting them to make way for a viable Palestinian state has become impossible.
  • (18) In fact, CFAs generally involve payment of a "success fee" on top of normal legal fees; the payment is not calculated as a proportion of the final settlement.
  • (19) They belong to the people who built Choquequirao, one of the most remote Inca settlements in the Andes, and were stashed here by the archaeologists who, over the past 20 years, have been slowly freeing the ruins from the cloud forest.
  • (20) In 2004, the dispute settlement body , the "judicial branch" of the WTO, ruled that the US had to reform its cotton subsidies or face "retaliation" from Brazil.