"phraseme" meaning in English

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          "text": "A phraseme is a linguistic entity, consisting of at least two items, the meaning of which is characterised by semantic irregularity, that is to say, the meaning of a phraseme is not arrived at by the composition of the meanings of its lexical constituents, but it is understood as semantically independent of these.",
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          "text": "Phrasemes are multiword expression which are units of the lexicon.",
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          "sense": "lexicalized multiword expression — see also set phrase",
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