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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of collocate.

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Examples

  • A quick check of their respective collocations shows that (in US English) syllabus very often collocates with course, whereas curriculum hardly ever does.

    June « 2010 « An A-Z of ELT 2010

  • On the other hand, curriculum collocates with school much more than syllabus does.

    June « 2010 « An A-Z of ELT 2010

  • On the other hand, curriculum collocates with school much more than syllabus does.

    C is for Curriculum « An A-Z of ELT 2010

  • A quick check of their respective collocations shows that (in US English) syllabus very often collocates with course, whereas curriculum hardly ever does.

    C is for Curriculum « An A-Z of ELT 2010

  • 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).

    June « 2010 « An A-Z of ELT 2010

  • 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).

    C is for Curriculum « An A-Z of ELT 2010

  • 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.

    Making Light: Beating airport chemical detection systems 2010

  • NCTC collocates more than 30 intelligence, military, law enforcement and homeland security networks under one roof to facilitate robust information sharing.

    Kristen Breitweiser: So Who's Getting Fired??? 2010

  • 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.

    Defining Collocates 2008

  • The word “new” occurred 609 times and the most frequent collocates were “new labour” and “new deal”.

    Perl Collocates 2008

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