"collocant" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1991, Journal de linguistique arabe:",
          "text": "Such verbs may come to encapsulate the meaning of the collocant, in which case the body-part may be omitted. The degree to which this occurs varies : 'ațraqa (=he bowed his head) , but not *šammara (he bared […])",
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          "ref": "2003, D. J. Allerton, Stretched Verb Constructions in English, Routledge, →ISBN, page 248:",
          "text": "It seems natural to assume that a deviant collocation should be corrected by changing the collocant rather than the base word, but some of the non-native speaker examples cited by Howarth (1998: 177–85) should probably be corrected ...",
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        },
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          "ref": "2001, Dirasat: Human and social sciences:",
          "text": "In (13), for example, the learners failed to recognize the collocant baked and compensated for that with another verb (cooked / produced) which share with baked the feature of making food on fire / heat.",
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          "ref": "2018, Richard J. Whitt, Diachronic Corpora, Genre, and Language Change, John Benjamins Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 45:",
          "text": "Annotated screenshot of the web-based DiaCollo user interface displaying a dynamic tag-cloud visualization of the 10 best common noun collocates per 50- year epoch for the collocant Revolution over the interval 1600–1899.",
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        "A word which collocates with another."
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          "ref": "1991, Journal de linguistique arabe:",
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          "ref": "2001, Dirasat: Human and social sciences:",
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          "ref": "2018, Richard J. Whitt, Diachronic Corpora, Genre, and Language Change, John Benjamins Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 45:",
          "text": "Annotated screenshot of the web-based DiaCollo user interface displaying a dynamic tag-cloud visualization of the 10 best common noun collocates per 50- year epoch for the collocant Revolution over the interval 1600–1899.",
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