lexical item
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Noun [edit]
lexical item (plural lexical items)
- (semantics) A term—word or a sequence of words—that acts as a unit of meaning, including words, phrases, phrasal verbs and proverbs, exemplified by "cat", "traffic light", "take care of", "by-the-way", and "don't count your chickens before they hatch".
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term that acts as a unit of meaning
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