collocate

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=colocar= to collocate, place.

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  1. transitive verb To place together or in proper order; arrange side by side.
  2. intransitive verb To occur in a collocation. Used of words: Rancid often collocates with butter.

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  • There is also research done by Portland showing how much has been saved - something London has emulated - by the way they have sought to collocate transport with development, to cut down the need for people to take so many journeys, certainly giving them very good alternatives to using their cars, getting them onto their bikes, their feet and the bus. —  Chinalyst - China blogs in English
  • "This company does not even collocate with us anywhere, much less 2323 Bryan Street Datacenter."
  • The video wouldn't actually traverse the public Internet; rather, ISP distributors would collocate VOD servers in their own facilities for optimal performance. —  Multichannel News: Breaking News
  • Â We collocate class definitions in a module (or group modules into a package) to make a comprehensible intellectual chunks. —  Planet Python
  • In a Jan. 13, 1994, memo, Aspin wrote that women might not be assigned "where units and position are doctrinally required to physically collocate and remain with direct combat units that are closed to women." —  WORLDMag.com
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  1. Latin collocāre, collocāt- : com-, com- + locāre, to place; see locate.

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  1. from Latin collocatus, past participle of collocare (later Spanish colocar = Portuguese collocar = Italian collocare), conlocare, place together, from com-, together, + locare, place, from locus, place: see locus. From collocare comes also couch, q. v.
  2. from Latin collocatus, past participle: see the verb.
 

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