Placements

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• Placement examples

The placements they are combinations of two words that, together, give a completely new meaning. They are often used to refer to an object or state of affairs. For example: give advice, vent a secret.

The placements are characteristic of a certain site or region so they can be completely meaningless or coherent for a speaker from a foreign region. The collocations do not respond to fixed rules, since their use depends on the speakers of a given language.

Collocations express a meaning unequivocally, that is, they cannot be confused or replaced. To be able to verify this we can try to translate the collocations into another language: we will verify that they completely lose their coherence.

It is important to differentiate the collocations of idiomatic expressions (for example the expression turn a blind eye or cut to the chase) since the difference is that the collocations provide meaning individually to the global idea, while idiomatic expressions lack the same global meaning if each component is taken separately.

Finally, it is important to indicate that there are somewhat strange collocations and that they are only used in specific contexts or places, but there are others that are very frequently used. For example: say one thing.

• It can serve you: literal sense and figurative sense

Placement examples

1. Open a wound
2. Grab the attention
3. Act wayward
4. Love unconditionally
5. Analyze carefully
6. Damsel bet
7. Handsome man
8. Filthy rich
9. Take a risk
10. Primary care
11. Low consumption
12. Sperm bank
13. Bank of fish
14. Blood bank
15. Fall into disuse
16. Cut coffee
17. Vile slander
18. Tax burden
19. Celebrate a meeting
20. Smack your lips
21. Trust fully
22. Solid knowledge
23. Keep the good mood
24. Financial playpen
25. Employment creation
26. Blindly believe
27. To give an advice
28. Go for a walk
29. Extreme sport
30. External debt
31. Public debt
32. School device
33. Financial device
34. Police device
35. Entering into a loving relationship
36. Big mistake
37. Price range
38. Strictly prohibited
39. Happily married
40. Investment fund
41. Fail miserably
42. Heavy smoker
43. Seriously injured
44. Conspiratorial wink
45. Olympically ignore
46. Carry out
47. Torrential rains
48. Crazy
49. Slice of ham
50. full moon
51. waning moon
52. Let's do it
53. Behave yourself
54. Black market
55. Menacing look
56. Unforgettable moment
57. Flatly deny
58. New economy
59. Grant a credit
60. Pump package
61. Irreparable loss
62. Investment plan
63. Pose problems
64. Active population
65. Passive population
66. Purchasing power
67. Put on doubt
68. Agree
69. Portion of cake
70. Care prices
71. Give a speech
72. Target audiences
73. Meeting point
74. Point of sale
75. Point of view
76. Salary cut
77. Refresh the memory
78. Fixed rent
79. Variable income
80. Withdraw greeting
81. Satisfy a demand
82. Public sector
83. Pointer sector
84. Life insurance
85. Request permission
86. Inveterate bachelor
87. Cut a tree
88. Birth rate
89. Consider
90. Eyewitness
91. Interest rates
92. Pull the leg
93. Take action on the matter
94. Take body
95. Digital ballot box
96. Ventilate a secret
97. Old economy
98. Vile lie
99. Red wine
100. Settle the controversy

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