colocar
Sentences
Meaning
- (transitive) to place; to put
- (transitive) to put
- (transitive) to hire; to employ
- (transitive) to invest (to commit capital in the hope of financial return)
- (pronominal, usually) to place (to earn a given spot in a competition’s result)
- (transitive) to put forth
Concepts
make use of
put onto
turn to account
pass oneself off
put in place
place down
Opposite of
tirar, retirar
Synonyms
vingar-se
por em prática
servir-se de
Translations
Frequency
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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