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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Linguists call it collocation: the likelihood of two words occurring together.
From The Guardian
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
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
Meanwhile, in California… Evernote Corporation has been growing its share of the “outboard brain” online collocation and storage market since its launch in 2008.
From Forbes
Although there was never a law against women serving in ground combat, the “intent of the law” was to prohibit it, so the collocation rules were made.
From Time
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