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settle

verb (LIVE)
 
 
/ˈset.l̩/ US  /ˈset̬-/

Definition

B2 [I usually + adv/prep] to go and live somewhere, especially permanently: After they got married, they settled in Brighton.Changing homes and moving [I or T, often passive] to arrive, especially from another country, in a new place and start to live there and use the land: America was first settled by people who came across from Asia over 25,000 years ago.Accommodating people
(Definition of settle verb (LIVE) from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

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