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to colocate

to colocate

1 5.8
To put people or things in the same place to make work easier
  • verb
  • /ˈkoʊləˌkeɪt/
translation icon : colocar
  • For instance, many independent schools of art and design are advantaged by the fact that they are colocated with major museum collections and/or are closely affiliated with professional arts and design organizations.

Examples

  • Since then, there have been two comparisons between colocated in situ instruments—that is, ones that measure OH at essentially a point location.

    Academic text (1996)

  • Also note that the Taliban is, in fact, split into about ten or more fighting units, which oftentimes colocate with international units like the IMU.

    Blog text (31)

  • This approach has been applied elsewhere when there are multiple colocated LIDAR data sets (Thompson et al., 2017).

    Academic text (2018)

  • Segal reported that only 38 percent of dual-career couples were colocated under the policy of forward-basing of military personnel.

    Academic text (1994)

  • Close by is Biopolis, a purpose-built biomedical research hub where researchers from the public and private sectors are colocated.

    Academic text (2009)

  • There have not been enough annual inventory plots remeasured to permit this analysis using exclusively annual data, so we instead used data from annual inventory plots that were colocated with plots from the most recent periodic inventory.

    Academic text (2017)

  • The number of available paired pre- and post-fire observations will increase over time, as new fires occur, as additional periodic plots are verified as being colocated with the annual locations, and as annual plots are remeasured.

    Academic text (2017)

  • Most sites adopting CBITS do not have research partners, and service models have varied considerably (e.g., district-employed social workers and school psychologists, colocated community mental health clinicians, individual contracted providers).

    Academic text (2011)

  • In many offices, teams are colocated to facilitate better communication and collaboration.

  • The university has chosen to colocate its engineering and business programs to encourage interdisciplinary projects.

Synonyms

to situate
vsto colocate
61 3.9

Put someone or something in a certain place

puts items together specifically to improve efficiency or convenience
to collocate
vsto colocate
7.4

To put things next to each other in a certain order

places items together in the same location mainly for efficiency

Antonyms

to separate
297 1.9

To break into parts or pieces

to disperse
104 4.4

To cause people and things, like a crowd or fog, to spread over a wide area

How Close

to pack
278 2.3
to colocate
1 5.8
to put together
988 2.8
to group
38 1.2

Surface Forms

colocate infinitive
colocated past
colocated past participle
colocating present participle
colocates third person singular

Morphology

colocate = locate (transparent) = co + locate

The productive prefix 'co-' meaning 'together' combines directly with the common verb 'locate', so the sense 'place together' is inferable by learners.

Etymology

Colocate comes from the prefix co- meaning 'together' and locate meaning 'place'. So, to colocate is to put or arrange things 'together in the same place', which is why companies colocate servers or teams to save money and make work easier.