The phrase "a man to settle" is not correct and lacks clarity in written English.
It may be intended to convey the idea of a man who is ready to commit or establish a stable life, but it requires additional context to be fully understood.
Example: "He is looking for a man to settle down with and start a family."
Alternatives: "a man to commit" or "a man to establish a life with".
Saeterbakken is not a man to settle for easy answers.
Hi Eva, I am a 29-year-old single woman looking for a man to settle down with.
Periodically she vows to chuck her glamorous, if dangerous, career and "get serious about finding a man to settle down with".
Although he may indeed have noticed the size of the salary on offer when the Football Association came calling, he is not a man to settle for second best from his players – as we saw from his touchline antics during England's last warm-up match at Wembley, where they beat Mexico 3-1.
You don't want a man to "settle" for you; your partner should see you as his first choice or something is wrong.
"Hughes is a great man to settle a horse and that's what I think is most of the job.
Hansen was a fitting man to settle such a tough match, as he had been forced out of the early exchanges to have eight stitches in a gapinghead wound.
They also reckon that with a new boss bedding himself in at Hills, now might be a more comfortable time for a new man to settle in at Ladbrokes.
I've got delightful girlfriends aged over 40, unaccountably single and involuntarily childless who haven't met a half-decent man to settle down with.
In her more tenacious, non-PC days my maternal grandmother -- Nana Ida, asked, as I was turning 40, "Why do you only date Mobster types, members of the IRA and Italian Playboys who live 5000 miles away?" (referring to my teenage boyfriends in NJ, my soulful lad from Dublin and my Milanese man with the curled vowels) she continued, "Why not find a nice Jewish man to settle down.
Henry Ballinger, became the first white man to settle in what is now Burlington County, N.J.
