Usually means: Frequent co-occurrence of words together.
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We found 34 dictionaries that define the word collocation:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. collocation: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. collocation: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. collocation: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. collocation: Collins English Dictionary
  5. collocation: Vocabulary.com
  6. Collocation, collocation: Wordnik
  7. collocation: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. collocation: Wiktionary
  9. collocation: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. collocation: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Collocation, collocation: Dictionary.com
  12. Collocation (remote sensing), Collocation: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Collocation: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. collocation: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. collocation: Rhymezone
  16. Collocation: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. collocation: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. collocation: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  19. collocation: Free Dictionary
  20. collocation: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  21. collocation: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. collocation: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  23. collocation: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  2. collocation: Legal dictionary

Computing (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. collocation: Webster's New World Hacker Dictionary
  2. collocation: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  3. Webopedia (No longer online)
  4. collocation: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. collocation: Webster's New World Telecom Dictionary

(Note: See collocational as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (uncountable) The grouping or juxtaposition of things, especially words or sounds.
noun:  (countable) Such a specific grouping.
noun:  (linguistics, translation studies) A sequence of words or terms that co-occur more often than would be expected by chance (i.e., the statistically significant placement of particular words in a language), often representing an established name for, or idiomatic way of conveying, a particular semantic concept.
noun:  (mathematics) A method of finding an approximate solution of an ordinary differential equation L[y]=0 by determining coefficients in an expansion y(x)=y_0(x)+∑ₗ₌₀^qαₗy_l(x) so as to make L[y] vanish at prescribed points; the expansion with the coefficients thus found is the sought approximation.
noun:  (computing) A service allowing multiple customers to locate network, server, and storage gear and connect them to a variety of telecommunications and network service providers, at a minimum of cost and complexity.

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