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n. - (linguistics) a distribution of related speech sounds or forms in such a way that they only appear in different contexts; The grammatical relation of a word or phrase to a predicate.

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  • When they behave like adverbs – i.e. when they don’t have any noun phrase complementation – they’re said to be phrasal verbs.
  • The Tracys are strong believers in gender complementation.
  • Reporter: Could the time be near for industrial complementation between
  • Chile has today the economic complementation agreements with more than 30 countries.
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