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Example sentences for: collocations

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Correct deployment of collocations is particularly important for anyone striving for authenticity of performance within a particular professional sociolect, such as the language of medicine or economics.
Movement towards the interior was movement up the country (from as early as 1805) or into the back country; movement towards the settled districts was movement down the country or in: travelers came in from the bush as they can now come in to a station, though out, except in collocations like outdistrict, outfarm, outsettler, outsettlement, belongs to a later period.
The main general collocations dictionary is Slovar' sochetaemosti slov russkogo yazyka Russian Word-combinatory Dictionary), by P.N. Denisov and V.V. Markovkin (Russki Yazyk, 1983).
No one could claim that it is an easy task to create collocations dictionaries: the chief problem is where to draw the proverbial line on a spectrum ranging from complete predictability, usually on a left-to-right basis, to total volatility of association by mere juxtaposition, for example, corned beef v. cheap beef .
What they lack in terms of general lexical resources is a collocations dictionary and a synonym differentiator, such as --in the case of a German--Duden's Die richtige Wortwahl , which subtitles itself as a comparative dictionary of sense-related expression.