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Someone who moves in, plants a flag, and rewrites whose land it always was.
means A person who relocates to live permanently in a new place, often newly colonized territory.
from From Old English 'setlan,' to seat or place — the root of 'settle,' meaning to make still, to come to rest, to install yourself for good.
Legal twinA debt-settler ends arguments, not journeys.
Loaded wordImplies empty land that rarely was.
Verb originSame root as a courtroom settlement.