Usually means: Accepting less than one desires.
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General (18 matching dictionaries)
  1. settling: Merriam-Webster
  2. settling: Collins English Dictionary
  3. settling: Vocabulary.com
  4. Settling, settling: Wordnik
  5. settling: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. settling: Wiktionary
  7. settling: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. settling: Dictionary.com
  9. settling: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. Settling, The Settling: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. Settling: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. settling: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  13. settling: Rhymezone
  14. Settling: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. settling: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  16. settling: FreeDictionary.org
  17. settling: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. Settling: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. settling: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. settling: Legal dictionary
  3. settling: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. settling: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. settling: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. settling: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Settling: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (settling)

▸ noun:  The act of one who, or that which, settles; the act of establishing oneself, of colonizing, subsiding, adjusting, etc.
▸ noun:  The reckoning or settlement of accounts; the paying out of gambling winnings.
▸ noun:  (usually in the plural) Dregs; sediment.

Similar:
subsiding, settlement, settlementation, establishment, colonization, establishing, stablishment, alightment, lodgment, setting, more...

Opposite:
agitating, disturbing, unsettling, provoking, disquieting

Types:
sedimentation, compaction, consolidation, subsidence, more...

Phrases:
settling in, settling down, settling on, settling for, settling velocity, more...

Adjectives:
gravitational, first, final, rapid, free, crystal, differential, primary, slow, non, gradual

Colors:
    beige,     taupe,     sand,     olive,     sage, more...



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Similar:
subsiding, settlement, settlementation, establishment, colonization, establishing, stablishment, alightment, lodgment, setting, more...

Opposite:
agitating, disturbing, unsettling, provoking, disquieting

Types:
sedimentation, compaction, consolidation, subsidence, more...

Phrases:
settling in, settling down, settling on, settling for, settling velocity, Settling time, settling tank, settling accounts, settling chamber, Settling basin, settling pond, crystal settling, settling affairs, more...

Adjectives:
gravitational, first, final, rapid, free, crystal, differential, primary, slow, non, gradual

Colors:
    beige,     taupe,     sand,     olive,     sage, more...



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