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settler

[set-ler, -l-er]

noun

  1. a person or thing that settles. settle.

  2. a person who settles settle in a new country or area.



settler

/ ˈɛٱə /

noun

  1. a person who settles in a new country or a colony

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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of settler1

First recorded in 1590–1600; settle 1 + -er 1
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She said she was volunteering in the southern area of the occupied West Bank, before Israeli settlers called the police on 31 May.

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In the late 1800s, white settlers and speculators found ways to secure additional lands along the Klamath River where they could extract valuable redwood, in some cases by bribing U.S.

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In the older settler colonial countries, the days of Trails of Tears, imprisonment on reservations, the forced removal of children to boarding schools and wars of extermination are mostly in the past.

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The crowd – mostly dressed in accordance with conservative religious rules – surged past buses with reinforced windows, fresh from ferrying groups of settlers from the occupied West Bank.

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The letters have reflected the scale of the civilian death toll in Gaza, Israel's restrictions on aid supply and Israeli settlement expansion and settler violence in the occupied West Bank, among other issues.

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