collocate

[ kol-uh-keyt ]

verb (used with object)

, col·lo·cat·ed, col·lo·cat·ing.

1. to set or place together, especially side by side.
2. to arrange in proper order:

   to collocate events.

verb (used without object)

, col·lo·cat·ed, col·lo·cat·ing.

1. Linguistics. to enter into a collocation.

noun

1. Linguistics. a lexical item that collocates with another.

collocate

/ ˈkɒləˌkeɪt /

verb

1. tr to group or place together in some system or order

Word History and Origins

Origin of collocate¹

1505–15; < Latin collocātus (past participle of collocāre ), equivalent to col- col- ¹ + loc ( us ) place + -ātus -ate ¹

Word History and Origins

Origin of collocate¹

C16: from Latin collocāre, from com- together + locāre to place, from locus place

Example Sentences

You can offer the context, the precedents, the keys to interpretation that help to collocate the fact that has happened.

From Seattle Times

In a corpus, “it may be that the most common collocate feels a little sexist, or a little something else,” Anne Curzan, a historian of English at the University of Michigan, told me.

From The New Yorker

In a corpus, “it may be that the most common collocate feels a little sexist, or a little something else,” Anne Curzan, a historian of English at the University of Michigan, told me.

From The New Yorker

When the institution opens in 2015, students will collocate at dorms around the world and take online classes from top-ranked professors.

From Inc

He and his colleagues propose a number of steps, including replacing towers’ steady burning red lights with flashing ones, removing floodlights from the base of towers, avoiding the use of guy wires when practical and encouraging different companies to collocate equipment to minimize new towers being built.

From New York Times