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Definitions
the act of positioning close together (or side by side)
Word origin
Learned borrowing from Latin collocātiō (“a putting together”). By surface analysis, col- (“together”) + location. The technical sense in linguistics was established in 1951, although it may actually be earlier. First attested in 1605.
Used in a sentence
“Everything in fact depends in Chinese on the proper collocation of words in a sentence. Thus ngò tà ni means “I beat thee;” but ni tà ngò would mean “Thou beatest me.””
“Little and few are also incomplete negatives; note the frequent collocation with no: there is little or no danger.”
“I propose to bring forward as a technical term, meaning by ‘collocation’, and to apply the test of ‘collocability’.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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