collocation (Q14387)
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| Language | Label | Description | Also known as |
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| English | collocation |
a term |
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Term_Collocation
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a combination of words (adjective-noun, verb-preposition) that have a certain mutual expectancy, that have a great likelihood of co-occurring, for example, false expectation, hot coffee, nice surprise. Collocations vary in the degree to which one lexical unit expects another to occur with it. Collocations are more fixed than free combinations and less fixed than idioms.
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