PROPERTY SETTLEMENT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does property settlement mean? 

• PROPERTY SETTLEMENT (noun)
  The noun PROPERTY SETTLEMENT has 1 sense:

1. (matrimonial law) the division of property owned or acquired by marriage partners during their marriage

  Familiarity information: PROPERTY SETTLEMENT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PROPERTY SETTLEMENT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(matrimonial law) the division of property owned or acquired by marriage partners during their marriage

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("property settlement" is a kind of...):

settlement (a conclusive resolution of a matter and disposition of it)

Domain category:

matrimonial law (that branch of jurisprudence that studies the laws governing matrimony)