lexical unit
noun/ˌleksɪkl ˈjuːnɪt/
/ˌleksɪkl ˈjuːnɪt/
(also lexeme)
(linguistics)- a word or several words that have a meaning that is not expressed by any of its separate partsTopics Languagec2
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