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noun a grouping of words in a sentence
noun the act of positioning close together (or side by side)
originLearned borrowing from Latin collocātiō (“a putting together”). By surface analysis, col- (“together”) + location. The technical sense in linguistics was established in 1951, although it may actually be earlier. First attested in 1605.
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