Meaning

  1. (transitive) to place; to put
  2. (transitive) to put
  3. (transitive) to hire; to employ
  4. (transitive) to invest (to commit capital in the hope of financial return)
  5. (pronominal, usually) to place (to earn a given spot in a competition’s result)
  6. (transitive) to put forth

Opposite of
tirar, retirar
Frequency

A2
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ko.loˈka(ʁ)/
Etymology

In summary

Learned borrowing from Latin collocāre (“to place, to put, to assemble”). Compare the inherited doublet colgar.

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