Settling /(?)/

Set·tling

Settling

n.
  1. The act of one who, or that which, settles; the act of establishing one's self, of colonizing, subsiding, adjusting, etc.
  2. That which settles at the bottom of a liquid; lees; dregs; sediment.

Phrases & Compounds
Settling day
a day for settling accounts, as in the stock market.