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The answer COLLOCATION has 2 possible clue(s) in existing crosswords.
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Definitions of collocation in various dictionaries:
noun - a grouping of words in a sentence
noun - the act of positioning close together (or side by side)
The act of collocating or the state of being collocated.
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| Pass over place that could be "beauty spot" |
| The placing of things together |
| Last Seen in these Crosswords & Puzzles |
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| Aug 14 2011 The Times - Cryptic |
| Oct 22 2005 The Times - Concise |
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| The act of collocating or the state of being collocated. |
| An arrangement or juxtaposition of words or other elements, especially those that commonly co-occur, as rancid butter, bosom buddy, or dead serious. |
| The habitual juxtaposition of a particular word with another word or words with a frequency greater than chance. |
| The action of placing things side by side or in position. |
| a grouping of words in a sentence |
| the act of positioning close together (or side by side) |
| a word or phrase that is often used with another word or phrase, in a way that sounds correct to people who have spoken the language all their lives, but might not be expected from the meaning: |
| the combination of words formed when two or more words are often used together in a way that sounds correct: |
| the regular use of some words and phrases with others, especially in a way that is difficult to guess |
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In corpus linguistics, a collocation is a sequence of words or terms that co-occur more often than would be expected by chance. In phraseology, collocation is a sub-type of phraseme. An example of a phraseological collocation, as propounded by Michael Halliday, is the expression strong tea. While the same meaning could be conveyed by the roughly equivalent powerful tea, this expression is considered excessive and awkward by English speakers. Conversely, the corresponding expression in technology, powerful computer is preferred over strong computer. Phraseological collocations should not be confused with idioms, where an idiom's meaning is derived from its convention as a stand-in for something else while collocation is a mere popular composition. * There are about six main types of collocations: adjective+noun, noun+noun (such as collective nouns), verb+noun, adverb+adjective, verbs+prepositional phrase (phrasal verbs), and verb+adverb. * Collocation extraction is a computational techniqu |