collocate
verb
• (of a word) be habitually juxtaposed with another with a frequency greater than chance.
• "‘maiden’ collocates with ‘voyage’"
• place side by side or in a particular relation.
• "McAndrew was a collocated facility with Argentia Naval Station"
collocate
noun
• a word that is habitually juxtaposed with another with a frequency greater than chance.
• "collocates for the word ‘mortgage’ include ‘lend’ and ‘property’"
Origin:
early 16th century (in collocate (sense 2 of the verb)): from Latin collocat- ‘placed together’, from the verb collocare, from col- ‘together’ + locare ‘to place’. collocate (sense 1 of the verb) dates from the 1950s.
