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Avoid a court appearance with workers heading for trial in colony (10)

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I believe the answer is:

settlement

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'colony' is the definition.
(I know that colony can be written as settlement)

'avoid a court appearance with workers heading for trial' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite see how this works, but
'workers' could be 'men' (men can mean staff or employees) and 'men' is found within the answer.
This may be the basis of clue (or it may be nonsense).

'in' acts as a link.

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(Other definitions for settlement that I've seen before include "charge paid off with this" , "Small colony" , "New community" , "Colonial outpost" , "Resolution" .)

I've seen this clue in the Irish Times (Crosaire) and The Irish Times.
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