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collocation

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11 lettersPronunciation /ˌkɒl.əˈkeɪ.ʃən/Part of speech nounSorted accillnoootStarts with CEnds with N0 clues
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Definitions

  1. 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’.

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