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General (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. collocates: Merriam-Webster
  2. collocates: Collins English Dictionary
  3. collocates: Vocabulary.com
  4. collocates: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  5. collocates: Wiktionary
  6. collocates: Dictionary.com
  7. collocates: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. collocates: Legal dictionary

(Note: See collocate as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (collocate)

verb:  (linguistics, translation studies) (said of certain words) To be often used together, form a collocation; for example strong collocates with tea.
verb:  To arrange or occur side by side.
verb:  (obsolete, transitive) To set or place or station in the same place as something else.
noun:  (linguistics) A component word of a collocation; a word that collocates with another.
adjective:  (obsolete) Set; placed.
▸ Also see collocate


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