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1. (adj.) exocentric
(of a grammatical construction or a compound) not having the same syntactic function in a sentence as any one of its constituents, as in the garden, which does not function the same way as the preposition in, the article the, or the noun garden.
Etymology: (1910–15)
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1. (adj) exocentric
not fulfilling the same grammatical role of any of its constituents
"when `until last Easter' serves as an adverb it is an exocentric construction"
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