Usually means: Arrange words together by meaning.
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  1. collocate: Merriam-Webster
  2. collocate: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. collocate: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. collocate: Collins English Dictionary
  5. collocate: Vocabulary.com
  6. collocate: Wordnik
  7. collocate: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. collocate: Wiktionary
  9. collocate: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. collocate: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. collocate: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Collocate, collocate: Dictionary.com
  13. Collocate: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Collocate: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. collocate: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. collocate: Rhymezone
  17. Collocate: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. collocate: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. collocate: FreeDictionary.org
  20. collocate: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. collocate: TheFreeDictionary.com
  22. collocate: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (1 matching dictionary)
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Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. collocate: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. collocate: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. collocate: A Word A Day

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
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.

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