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.
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Etymology
Origin of collocation
1595–1605; < Latin collocātiōn- (stem of collocātiō ), equivalent to collocāt ( us ) ( see collocate) + -iōn- -ion
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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
And yet, although the words were all familiar enough, their collocation mystified her.
From The Adventures of a Widow A Novel by Fawcett, Edgar
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