— collocational, collocative , adj.
/kol'euh kay"sheuhn/ , 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.
[ 1595-1605; collocation- (s. of collocatio ), equiv. to collocat ( us ) (see COLLOCATE) + -ion- -ION ]