Usually means: Commonly paired words in language.
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We found 12 dictionaries that define the word collocations:

General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. collocations: Merriam-Webster
  2. collocations: Collins English Dictionary
  3. collocations: Vocabulary.com
  4. collocations: Wordnik
  5. collocations: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. collocations: Wiktionary
  7. collocations: Dictionary.com
  8. Collocations: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. collocations: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Collocations: Glossary of English Grammar Terms

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

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. collocations: Encyclopedia

(Note: See collocation as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (collocation)

noun:  (uncountable) The grouping or juxtaposition of things, especially words or sounds.
noun:  (countable) Such a specific grouping.
noun:  (linguistics, translation studies) 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), often representing an established name for, or idiomatic way of conveying, a particular semantic concept.
noun:  (mathematics) A method of finding an approximate solution of an ordinary differential equation L[y]=0 by determining coefficients in an expansion y(x)=y_0(x)+∑ₗ₌₀^qαₗy_l(x) so as to make L[y] vanish at prescribed points; the expansion with the coefficients thus found is the sought approximation.
noun:  (computing) A service allowing multiple customers to locate network, server, and storage gear and connect them to a variety of telecommunications and network service providers, at a minimum of cost and complexity.
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