OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 17056

apposition

/ˌæpəˈzɪʃn̩/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
aposición
A construction in which one noun or noun phrase is placed with another as an explanatory equivalent, both of them having the same syntactic function in the sentence.
The apposition in the title has been read as indicating that ‘Hobson-Jobson’ is equivalent to ‘colloquial Anglo-Indian words and phrases’.
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