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Definitions
Wiktionary
- v. third-person singular simple present indicative form of collocate.
Etymologies
- Latin collocāre, collocāt- : com-, com- + locāre, to place; see locate.
Examples
“A quick check of their respective collocations shows that (in US English) syllabus very often collocates with course, whereas curriculum hardly ever does.”
“On the other hand, curriculum collocates with school much more than syllabus does.”
“In British English, syllabus is often associated with particular subjects (language, mathematics, sciences) whereas curriculum collocates with national, core … and hidden (more on that one later).”
“NCTC collocates more than 30 intelligence, military, law enforcement and homeland security networks under one roof to facilitate robust information sharing.”
“Economic neoliberalism - a retread of the liberalism that collocates with laissez-faire in many texts - has come to have as little to do with the American political left as Xopher's reaction suggests.”
“Now that Marty has made the decision that he will write a simple Perl script to pull collocates out of data for me I need to give him a more precise specification of a collocate.”
“The word “new” occurred 609 times and the most frequent collocates were “new labour” and “new deal”.”
“I have been reading about collocates – words that are typically grouped together such as “law and order” and “fish and chips”.”
“Although I guess not all collocates are meaningless.”
“I am surprised that you think that the collocates that politicians use are meaningless.”
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