Disbursement vs. Settlement — What's the Difference?

A disbursement is a form of payment from a public or dedicated fund. Alternatively, it means a payment made on behalf of a client to a third party for which reimbursement is subsequently sought from the client.

The act or process of settling

The act or process of disbursing.

The settling or establishment of a person or a group of people, as in a new region or in a business.

Money paid out; expenditure.

A newly colonized region.

The act, instance, or process of disbursing.

A small community.

Money paid out or spent.

An arrangement or agreement reached, as in business proceedings or negotiating a dispute

The act of disbursing or paying out.

The resolution of a lawsuit or dispute by settling.

That which is disbursed or paid out; as, the annual disbursements exceed the income.

The process of reaching such an arrangement, agreement, or resolution.

Amounts paid for goods and services that may be currently tax deductible (as opposed to capital expenditures)

The legal determination of title to property.

The act of spending or disbursing money

The process of making the determinations and distributions associated with a trust.

A center providing community services in an underprivileged area. Also called settlement house.

The act of settling.

The state of being settled.

A colony that is newly established; a place or region newly settled (even in past times).

A community of people living together, such as a hamlet, village, town, or city; a populated place.

(archeology) A site where people used to live together in ancient times; an ancient simple kind of village.

(architecture) The gradual sinking of a building. Fractures or dislocations caused by settlement.

(finance) The delivery of goods by the seller and payment for them by the buyer, under a previously agreed trade or transaction or contract entered into.

(legal) A disposition of property, or the act of granting it.

(legal) A settled place of abode; residence; a right growing out of legal residence.

(legal) A resolution of a dispute.

(law) A mutual agreement to end a dispute without resorting to legal proceedings, also known as an out-of-court settlement or settling out of court.

The act of setting, or the state of being settled.

Establishment in life, in business, condition, etc.; ordination or installation as pastor.

That which settles, or is settled, established, or fixed.

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.

Matter that subsides; settlings; sediment; lees; dregs.

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.

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.

A colony newly established; a place or region newly settled; as, settlement in the West.

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.

Bestowal, or giving possession, under legal sanction; the act of giving or conferring anything in a formal and permanent manner.

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.

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.

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

A community of people smaller than a town

A conclusive resolution of a matter and disposition of it

The act of colonizing; the establishment of colonies;

Something settled or resolved; the outcome of decision making;

An area where a group of families live together

Termination of a business operation by using its assets to discharge its liabilities