collocate

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin collocatum, supine of collocō. Doublet of couch.

verb

1. (linguistics, translation studies) (said of certain words) To be often used together, form a collocation; for example strong collocates with tea.
2. To arrange or occur side by side.
3. (obsolete, transitive) To set or place; to station.
   to marſhall and collocate in order his battayles 1548, Edward Hall, The Union of the Two Noble and Illustre Families of Lancastre and Yorke

noun

1. (linguistics) A component word of a collocation; a word that collocates with another.
   A list of collocations to accompany the SVL words providing their important lexico-grammatical associations could therefore be a useful supplementary resource. Thus, we took an extra step not present in previously developed academic wordlists and created lists of each word's discipline-specific collocates. 2018, Clarence Green, James Lambert, “Advancing disciplinary literacy through English for academic purposes: Discipline-specific wordlists, collocations and word families for eight secondary subjects”, in Journal of English for Academic Purposes, volume 35, →DOI, page 109

adj

1. (obsolete) Set; placed.