collocation
Americannoun
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the act of collocating.
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the state or manner of being collocated.
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the arrangement, especially of words in a sentence.
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Linguistics. a co-occurrence of lexical items, as perform with operation or commit with crime.
Other Word Forms
- collocational adjective
- collocative adjective
Etymology
Origin of collocation
1595–1605; < Latin collocātiōn- (stem of collocātiō ), equivalent to collocāt ( us ) ( collocate ) + -iōn- -ion
Example Sentences
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Also, “hyperscalers and collocation companies are expected to invest about $7 trillion in data center infrastructure globally over the course of 2025 to 2030, with about $800 billion going towards electrical equipment and mechanical equipment.”
From Barron's • Feb. 23, 2026
Linguists call it collocation: the likelihood of two words occurring together.
From The Guardian • Jan. 27, 2016
It’s a work of journalism that never felt like journalism, a collocation of short quotes, a book that’s both joyful and angry, a book to get lost in.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 20, 2016
Notably, the script used to analyze the texts relied on modified versions of four of the Natural Language Toolkit’s prepackaged modules: the word tokenizer, part of speech tagger, WordNetLemmatizer, and collocation finder.
From Scientific American • Nov. 26, 2012
In such languages the same collocation of words often corresponds to quite different meanings, as the precise relation of the thoughts is not defined by any formal elements.
From The Philosophic Grammar of American Languages, as Set Forth by Wilhelm von Humboldt With the Translation of an Unpublished Memoir by Him on the American Verb by Brinton, Daniel Garrison
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