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Also, settle with someone. Pay a debt or one's share of the cost, as in When can you settle up for the tickets I bought for us? or Jean said she'd settle with the bank next month.

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A relative of mine has died and I must settle up his affairs.
Frank Merriwell's Bravery|Burt L. Standish
But Ise gotter settle up dis policy fer de fambly so what is it?
Three Little Women|Gabrielle E. Jackson
De aint no watter bout it; its fire, an I done come ter settle up, asserted Mammy.
Three Little Women|Gabrielle E. Jackson
Now a new fiscal system was to be introduced there to settle up the arrears of Viceroy Mulraj of Multan.
A History of the Nineteenth Century, Year by Year|Edwin Emerson

On the rim above squatted Bug Mitchell, scowling, and gripping his knife as if he thirsted to settle up all scores on the instant.
The Backwoodsmen|Charles G. D. Roberts

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