Dictionary
col•lo•ca•tion
Pronunciation: (kol"u-kā'shun), [key]—
n.
1. the act of collocating.
2. the state or manner of being collocated.
3. the arrangement, esp. of words in a sentence.
4. Ling.a co-occurrence of lexical items, as
perform with
operation or
commit with
crime.Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Copyright © 1997, by Random House, Inc., on Infoplease.