| arrangement | | |
| n. (cognition) | 1. agreement, arrangement | the thing arranged or agreed to.; "they made arrangements to meet in Chicago" |
| ~ planning, preparation, provision | the cognitive process of thinking about what you will do in the event of something happening.; "his planning for retirement was hindered by several uncertainties" |
| ~ collusion | secret agreement. |
| ~ prearrangement | something arranged in advance. |
| n. (group) | 2. arrangement | an orderly grouping (of things or persons) considered as a unit; the result of arranging.; "a flower arrangement" |
| ~ group, grouping | any number of entities (members) considered as a unit. |
| ~ floral arrangement, flower arrangement | a decorative arrangement of flowers. |
| ~ lash-up, contrivance | any improvised arrangement for temporary use. |
| ~ scaffold | a temporary arrangement erected around a building for convenience of workers. |
| ~ array | an orderly arrangement.; "an array of troops in battle order" |
| ~ categorisation, categorization, classification | a group of people or things arranged by class or category. |
| ~ aestivation, estivation | (botany) the arrangement of sepals and petals in a flower bud before it opens. |
| ~ tableau, tableau vivant | a group of people attractively arranged (as if in a painting). |
| ~ venation | (botany) the arrangement of veins in a leaf. |
| ~ vernation | (botany) the arrangement of young leaves in a leaf bud before it opens. |
| ~ formation | an arrangement of people or things acting as a unit.; "a defensive formation"; "a formation of planes" |
| ~ ordering, ordination, order | logical or comprehensible arrangement of separate elements.; "we shall consider these questions in the inverse order of their presentation" |
| n. (cognition) | 3. arrangement, organisation, organization, system | an organized structure for arranging or classifying.; "he changed the arrangement of the topics"; "the facts were familiar but it was in the organization of them that he was original"; "he tried to understand their system of classification" |
| ~ structure | the complex composition of knowledge as elements and their combinations.; "his lectures have no structure" |
| ~ classification system | a system for classifying things. |
| ~ contrivance | an artificial or unnatural or obviously contrived arrangement of details or parts etc..; "the plot contained too many improbable contrivances to be believable" |
| ~ coordinate system, frame of reference, reference frame, reference system | a system that uses coordinates to establish position. |
| ~ data structure | (computer science) the organization of data (and its storage allocations in a computer). |
| ~ design, plan | an arrangement scheme.; "the awkward design of the keyboard made operation difficult"; "it was an excellent design for living"; "a plan for seating guests" |
| ~ distribution, statistical distribution | (statistics) an arrangement of values of a variable showing their observed or theoretical frequency of occurrence. |
| ~ genetic map | graphical representation of the arrangement of genes on a chromosome. |
| ~ kinship system | (anthropology) the system of social relationships that constitute kinship in a particular culture, including the terminology that is used and the reciprocal obligations that are entailed. |
| ~ lattice | an arrangement of points or particles or objects in a regular periodic pattern in 2 or 3 dimensions. |
| ~ living arrangement | an arrangement to allow people (or ideas) to coexist. |
| ~ ontology | (computer science) a rigorous and exhaustive organization of some knowledge domain that is usually hierarchical and contains all the relevant entities and their relations. |
| ~ calendar | a system of timekeeping that defines the beginning and length and divisions of the year. |
| n. (attribute) | 4. arrangement, placement | the spatial property of the way in which something is placed.; "the arrangement of the furniture"; "the placement of the chairs" |
| ~ formation | a particular spatial arrangement. |
| ~ spatial relation, position | the spatial property of a place where or way in which something is situated.; "the position of the hands on the clock"; "he specified the spatial relations of every piece of furniture on the stage" |
| ~ columniation | (architecture) the arrangement of columns (especially freestanding columns) in a structure. |
| ~ composing, composition | the spatial property resulting from the arrangement of parts in relation to each other and to the whole.; "harmonious composition is essential in a serious work of art" |
| ~ fenestration | the arrangement of windows in a building. |
| ~ proportionality, balance, proportion | harmonious arrangement or relation of parts or elements within a whole (as in a design).; "in all perfectly beautiful objects there is found the opposition of one part to another and a reciprocal balance" |
| ~ alignment | the spatial property possessed by an arrangement or position of things in a straight line or in parallel lines. |
| ~ misalignment | the spatial property of things that are not properly aligned. |
| ~ ramification | an arrangement of branching parts. |
| ~ spatial arrangement, spacing | the property possessed by an array of things that have space between them. |
| ~ tandem | an arrangement of two or more objects or persons one behind another. |
| n. (communication) | 5. arrangement, musical arrangement | a piece of music that has been adapted for performance by a particular set of voices or instruments. |
| ~ musical composition, opus, piece of music, composition, piece | a musical work that has been created.; "the composition is written in four movements" |
| ~ orchestration | an arrangement of a piece of music for performance by an orchestra or band. |
| ~ instrumentation | the instruments called for in a musical score or arrangement for a band or orchestra. |
| n. (act) | 6. arrangement, arranging, transcription | the act of arranging and adapting a piece of music. |
| ~ rearrangement | changing an arrangement. |
| ~ composing, composition | musical creation. |
| ~ orchestration, instrumentation | the act of arranging a piece of music for an orchestra and assigning parts to the different musical instruments. |
| ~ orchestration | an arrangement of events that attempts to achieve a maximum effect.; "the skillful orchestration of his political campaign" |
| compromise | | |
| n. (act) | 1. compromise, via media | a middle way between two extremes. |
| ~ cooperation | joint operation or action.; "their cooperation with us was essential for the success of our mission" |
| n. (communication) | 2. compromise | an accommodation in which both sides make concessions.; "the newly elected congressmen rejected a compromise because they considered it `business as usual'" |
| ~ accommodation | a settlement of differences.; "they reached an accommodation with Japan" |
| ~ missouri compromise | an agreement in 1820 between pro-slavery and anti-slavery factions in the United States concerning the extension of slavery into new territories. |
| v. (communication) | 3. compromise | make a compromise; arrive at a compromise.; "nobody will get everything he wants; we all must compromise" |
| ~ agree | achieve harmony of opinion, feeling, or purpose.; "No two of my colleagues would agree on whom to elect chairman" |
| ~ whore | compromise oneself for money or other gains.; "She whored herself to Hollywood" |
| ~ give and take | make mutual concessions.; "In life you have to give and take" |
| v. (communication) | 4. compromise | settle by concession. |
| ~ square off, settle, square up, determine | settle conclusively; come to terms.; "We finally settled the argument" |
| ~ agree, concur, concord, hold | be in accord; be in agreement.; "We agreed on the terms of the settlement"; "I can't agree with you!"; "I hold with those who say life is sacred"; "Both philosophers concord on this point" |
| v. (communication) | 5. compromise | expose or make liable to danger, suspicion, or disrepute.; "The nuclear secrets of the state were compromised by the spy" |
| ~ endanger, peril, queer, scupper, expose | put in a dangerous, disadvantageous, or difficult position. |
| settlement | | |
| n. (group) | 1. colony, settlement | a body of people who settle far from home but maintain ties with their homeland; inhabitants remain nationals of their home state but are not literally under the home state's system of government.; "the American colony in Paris" |
| ~ body | a group of persons associated by some common tie or occupation and regarded as an entity.; "the whole body filed out of the auditorium"; "the student body"; "administrative body" |
| ~ frontier settlement, outpost | a settlement on the frontier of civilization. |
| ~ plantation | a newly established colony (especially in the colonization of North America).; "the practice of sending convicted criminals to serve on the Plantations was common in the 17th century" |
| ~ proprietary colony | a colony given to a proprietor to govern (in 17th century). |
| ~ demerara | a former Dutch colony in South America; now a part of Guyana. |
| ~ calpe, gibraltar, rock of gibraltar | location of a colony of the United Kingdom on a limestone promontory at the southern tip of Spain; strategically important because it can control the entrance of ships into the Mediterranean; one of the Pillars of Hercules. |
| ~ plymouth colony | colony formed by the Pilgrims when they arrived at Plymouth Rock in 1620; it was absorbed into the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1691. |
| ~ new amsterdam | a settlement established by the Dutch near the mouth of Hudson River and the southern end of Manhattan Island; annexed by the English in 1664 and renamed New York. |
| ~ colonial | a resident of a colony. |
| n. (group) | 2. settlement, small town, village | a community of people smaller than a town. |
| ~ community | a group of people living in a particular local area.; "the team is drawn from all parts of the community" |
| ~ moshav | a cooperative Israeli village or settlement comprised of small farms. |
| n. (communication) | 3. settlement | a conclusive resolution of a matter and disposition of it. |
| ~ agreement, understanding | the statement (oral or written) of an exchange of promises.; "they had an agreement that they would not interfere in each other's business"; "there was an understanding between management and the workers" |
| ~ accommodation | a settlement of differences.; "they reached an accommodation with Japan" |
| ~ conclusion | a final settlement.; "the conclusion of a business deal"; "the conclusion of the peace treaty" |
| ~ out-of-court settlement | resolution of a dispute prior to the rendering of a final decision by the trial court. |
| ~ property settlement | (matrimonial law) the division of property owned or acquired by marriage partners during their marriage. |
| ~ accord and satisfaction | the settlement of a debt by paying less than the amount demanded in exchange for extinguishing the debt. |
| n. (act) | 4. colonisation, colonization, settlement | the act of colonizing; the establishment of colonies.; "the British colonization of America" |
| ~ establishment, constitution, formation, organisation, organization | the act of forming or establishing something.; "the constitution of a PTA group last year"; "it was the establishment of his reputation"; "he still remembers the organization of the club" |
| ~ population | the act of populating (causing to live in a place).; "he deplored the population of colonies with convicted criminals" |
| n. (cognition) | 5. closure, resolution, settlement | something settled or resolved; the outcome of decision making.; "they finally reached a settlement with the union"; "they never did achieve a final resolution of their differences"; "he needed to grieve before he could achieve a sense of closure" |
| ~ deciding, decision making | the cognitive process of reaching a decision.; "a good executive must be good at decision making" |
| n. (location) | 6. settlement | an area where a group of families live together. |
| ~ geographic area, geographic region, geographical area, geographical region | a demarcated area of the Earth. |
| ~ village, hamlet | a settlement smaller than a town. |
| n. (act) | 7. liquidation, settlement | termination of a business operation by using its assets to discharge its liabilities. |
| ~ ending, termination, conclusion | the act of ending something.; "the termination of the agreement" |
| ~ viaticus settlement, viatical settlement | sale of an insurance policy by a terminally ill policy holder. |
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