settle on
phrasal verbsettle on something
- to choose or make a decision about something after thinking about it
- Have you settled on a name for the baby yet?
- After much deliberation, he finally settled on a beautiful patterned rug.
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settle something on somebody
- (law) to formally arrange to give money or property to somebody, especially in a will
- He settled part of his estate on his son.