collocatoryadj.
= collocative adj. 1.
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the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > [adjective]
collocative1830
tactica1832
collocational1871
collocatory1871
1871 J. Earle Philol. Eng. Tongue xii. 536 With this modulatory progress there is certainly a collocatory progress.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online March 2018).
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adj.1871- to know what a type is like
- to know what is like
- to know what o'clock it is
- to know what one is about
- to know what one likes
- to know what something is
- to know what's what
- to know when one is well off
- to know where a person is coming from
- to know where one is with someone
- to know where one stands
- to know where one stands with someone
- to know where the bodies are buried
- to know where the shoe wrings one
- to know where to find a person
- to know whereof one etc
- to know whereof one speaks
- to know whereof one writes
- to know which side one's bread is buttered
- to know which way is up
- to know which way the wind blows
- to knuckle down to
- to labour one's needs
- to labour one's way
- to labour under a misapprehension