Someone who settles in a new location; especially one who takes up residence in a previously uninhabited place.
the first settlers of New England
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Someone who decides or settles something, such as a dispute.
The law, which let settlers stay on private land if they had built there without knowing the property belonged to Palestinians or had done so at the state’s direction, was backed by Israel’s most right-wing governing coalition to date.
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(colloquial) That which settles or finishes, such as a blow that decides a contest.
It was the racist, settler colonialism that created whiteness, that created blackness, half-caste, quarter-caste, octoroon, that saw mixed-race people as a third race. This belief was one of the drivers of the ‘protection’ laws that led …
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