settle accounts with
1settle accounts with — index collect (recover money), compensate (remunerate) Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …
2settle accounts with the debtors and creditors — index liquidate (determine liability) Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …
3settle accounts with — settle (orsquare) accounts with pay money owed to (someone) ■ have revenge on the dirty business of settling accounts with former Communists …
4settle accounts — phrasal : to make up a quarrel or breach by requital or by agreeing to terms * * * settle accounts ● account * * * settle an account/settle accounts/ phrase to end a disagreement or argument with someone by defeating them They threatened to… …
5square accounts with — settle the accounts with someone …
6settle an account — settle an account/settle accounts/ phrase to end a disagreement or argument with someone by defeating them They threatened to settle accounts with those who opposed them. Thesaurus: ending, solving and avoiding arguments and fightshyponym… …
7settle with — Synonyms and related words: accommodate, account with, adjust, arrange, be quits, bring to account, bring to book, call to account, castigate, chasten, chastise, clear the board, close, close with, compose, conclude, correct, deal with,… …
8settle — set‧tle [ˈsetl] verb 1. [intransitive, transitive] to end an argument by agreeing to do something: • The two companies signed a pact that settled the patent suit. • Before the second phase of the trial, the companysettled out of court (= ended… …
9settle — v. 1) to settle peacefully (to settle a dispute peacefully) 2) (d; intr.) to settle for ( to be content with ) (they had to settle for a very modest house with no garage) 3) (d; intr.) ( to decide ) to settle on (have you settled on a place for… …
10settle — set·tle vb set·tled, set·tling vt 1: to resolve conclusively settle a question of law 2: to establish or secure permanently a settled legal principle 3 …
