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Collocation Translation 张晓东 王颖潇 01 Definitions of Collocations The term collocation was first introduced by J. R. Firth, whose definition of collocation is, collocations are actual words in habitual company. In one of his often quoted paper Modes of Meaning in 1951, Firth provided a more detailed explanation: Meaning by collocation is an abstraction at the syntagmatic level and is not directly concerned with the conceptual or ideal approach to the meaning of words. Meanings of Colloc