Definition of "collocate" []

• To place together or in proper order; arrange side by side. (verb-transitive)
• To occur in a collocation. Used of words: Rancid often collocates with butter. (verb-intransitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "Often the clandestine decision to "collocate" a shiny new school in a hell-hole building is the first step toward closing a neighboring school."
• "Note how often they collocate with verbs like claim, deny, suggest, suspect, as well as with modals like may."
• "To be fair to Yule, he also includes dancing, swimming and skiing in his list of verbs that collocate with like, but I agree that with “I like dancing/swimming/skiing” there is a stronger implication that I am the performer."