to become familiar with a new way of life, place, or job, or to make someone do this
to make yourself comfortable in a place because you are going to stay there for a long time
It took the young men half an hour to settle in, unpack, make a few telephone calls.
She handed him over, or rather he handed himself over, while Iris was helping me to settle in.
She seems to have settled in quickly at her new company.
The land gradually changed as people began to settle in the middle reaches of the Sao Francisco valley during the seventeenth century.
We found our seats and settled in for the journey.
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There is no origin for this phrasal verb
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