Adjectives that collocate with ABBREVIATION(Sorted by collocation rank)
medical (60), common (59), following (50), postal (45), name (42), standard (41), syllabic (35), language (33), crochet (33), Latin (32), pharmacy (31), correct (24), same (23), source (19), two-letter (18), acceptable (16), week (11), stupid (5), paygrade (5), foreign language (2)
Adjectives that collocate with ABBREVIATION (Sorted by alphabetical order)
acceptable (16), common (59), correct (24), crochet (33), following (50), foreign language (2), language (33), Latin (32), medical (60), name (42), paygrade (5), pharmacy (31), postal (45), same (23), source (19), standard (41), stupid (5), syllabic (35), two-letter (18), week (11)
Verbs + abbreviation:
stand for (The abbreviation VN stands for ‘Vietnam country’.)
abbreviation + prepositions:
for (USA is the abbreviation for ‘the United States of America’.), of (PC is the abbreviation of an English word 'personal computer’.)
