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collocate

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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
collocation/kɒləˈkeɪʃn/

▶noun

1 Linguistics the habitual juxtaposition of a particular word with another word or words with a frequency greater than chance.

2 the action of placing things together according to a system or order.

– derivatives
collocate verb.

– origin ME: from L. collocatio(n-), from collocare ‘place together’.

'collocate' also found in these Oxford entries:

col- - collocation

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