"miscollocation" meaning in English

See miscollocation in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: miscollocations [plural]
Etymology: From mis- + collocation. Etymology templates: {{prefix|en|mis|collocation}} mis- + collocation Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} miscollocation (countable and uncountable, plural miscollocations)
  1. Wrong collocation. Tags: countable, uncountable

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "1840, Thomas De Quincey, “Style”, in Critical Suggestions on Style and Rhetoric with German Tales and Other Narrative Papers (De Quincey’s Works; XI), London: James Hogg & Sons, published 1859, →OCLC, part I, page 195:",
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