| Collocation |
The
tendency for one language item to occur in the same sentence
as another language item, usually in the context of a corpus
of the language.
Example:
crime collocates with words such as violent,
inner-city, increase, rate, as in:
Violent crime is a growing problem.
There has been an increase in crime in the town center.
Crime is not just an inner-city issue.
Crime rates have fallen slightly this month.
Collocations show the ways a word is used in the
“real-world”. All the examples above are possible uses,
but only the first set are common.
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