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Some collocations are fixed, or very strong. Many collocations are more open, where several different words might be used to give the same meaning, as an example keep to or stick to the rules. [2] [3]
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In corpus linguistics, a collocation is a series of words or terms that co-occur more often than would be expected by chance. In phraseology , a collocation is a type of compositional phraseme , meaning that it can be understood from the words that make it up.
This is a comparison of English dictionaries, which are dictionaries about the language of English.The dictionaries listed here are categorized into "full-size" dictionaries (which extensively cover the language, and are targeted to native speakers), "collegiate" (which are smaller, and often contain other biographical or geographical information useful to college students), and "learner's ...
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In the traditional grammar of Modern English, a phrasal verb typically constitutes a single semantic unit consisting of a verb followed by a particle (e.g., turn down, run into, or sit up), sometimes collocated with a preposition (e.g., get together with, run out of, or feed off of).
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From January 2008 to December 2012, if you bought shares in companies when Johnathan A. Rodgers joined the board, and sold them when he left, you would have a 18.2 percent return on your investment, compared to a -2.8 percent return from the S&P 500.