collocate

American  

[kol-uh-keyt] / ˈkɒl əˌkeɪt /

verb (used with object)

collocated, collocating

1. to set or place together, especially side by side.

2. to arrange in proper order.

   to collocate events.

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verb (used without object)

collocated, collocating

1. Linguistics. to enter into a collocation.

noun

1. Linguistics. a lexical item that collocates with another.

collocate British  

/ ˈkɒləˌkeɪt /

verb

1. (tr) to group or place together in some system or order

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Etymology

Origin of collocate

1505–15; < Latin collocātus (past participle of collocāre ), equivalent to col- col- ¹ + loc ( us ) place + -ātus -ate ¹

Example Sentences

You can offer the context, the precedents, the keys to interpretation that help to collocate the fact that has happened.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 19, 2021

It is thus that morphologists have been enabled to frame types or standards of reference, and systematists to collocate the organisms they deal with into groups.

From Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants by Masters, Maxwell T.

De Cagotis tollendis, to collocate his Summum Bonum, in Braguibus, et Braguetis.

From Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 3 by Motteux, Peter Anthony

Put the three together and condense or collocate their several meanings in one compound qualification which you can write and another spell, and you do not compass the signification you want to convey. 

From A Walk from London to John O'Groat's by Burritt, Elihu