Please explain to me what collocation of thriving positive could mean? Many thanks.
Reversing the collocation changes the meaning completely.
'thrive positively' = 'thrive in a beneficial way'
'positively thrive' = 'definitely thrive'
I agree with 5jj: 'I think the Oxford Collocations Dictionary has slipped up'.
Rover
EDIT: 'Thrive' is such a positive word anyway, I doubt anything could be said to thrive negatively.