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What is a collocation?

What is a collocation? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (uncountable) The grouping or juxtaposition of things, especially words or sounds.
  2. (countable) Such a specific grouping.
  3. (linguistics) A sequence of words or terms that co-occur more often than would be expected by chance (i.e., the statistically significant placement of particular words in a language).
  4. (mathematics) A method of determining coefficients in an expansion
  5. (computing) A service allowing multiple customers to locate network, server, and storage gear, connect them to a variety of telecommunications and network service providers, with a minimum of cost and complexity.
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Workspace and billeting collocation can set the conditions for relationship development.
But to succeed as an eggcorn, a collocation has to have something going for it, a theory that licenses it and makes it seem reasonable.
The collocation of these functionally related units with their organic equipment enabled a dramatic improvement in weekend training.
That collocation of ingredients necessarily is attended with harm to the competitive process.
Johnson gave little attention to collocation, idiom, and grammatical information, although he provided a brief grammar at the front.
This example shows how the meanings of words are constructed and maintained by patterns of collocation.

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