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holophrasis
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holophrasis, holophrase
the ability, in certain languages, to express a complex idea or entire sentence in a single word, as the imperative “Stop!” — holophrasm, n. — holophrastic, adj.
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MWU's have been studied under a plethora of designations: "lexical phrases, multi-word units, fixed phrases, formulaic phrases, chunks, preassembled chunks, prefabricated units, holophrases, and so on" (Willis 1997).
Variation in multi-word units: the absent dimension by Abu-Ssaydeh, Abdul-Fattah / Studia Anglica Posnaniensia: international review of English Studies
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