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   collocate

   verb

   • 1. (of a word) be habitually juxtaposed with another with a frequency greater than chance: "‘maiden’ collocates with ‘voyage’"
   • 2. place side by side or in a particular relation: rare "McAndrew was a collocated facility with Argentia Naval Station"

   noun

   • 1. a word that is habitually juxtaposed with another with a frequency greater than chance: "collocates for the word ‘mortgage’ include ‘lend’ and ‘property’"

   Word Origin early 16th century (in collocate (sense 2 of the verb)): from Latin collocat- ‘placed together’, from the verb collocare, from col- ‘together’ + locare ‘to place’. collocate (sense 1 of the verb) dates from the 1950s.

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