"absorb" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- And to maintain the same amount of productive capital equipment per worker, the economy had to increase the stock of capital one-fifth - an effort that absorbed hundreds of billions of dollars.
- Leveraged buyouts, in which management joins with outside investors, have absorbed billions of dollars of "junk bond" financing in recent years.
- Even with the changes in Congress's bill, the legislation calls on private plans to absorb tens of billions in reductions in anticipated annual Government payments.
- Theoretically the niling effect could absorb billions of kilowatt hours before reaching saturation point.
- Doctors would absorb billions in losses in projected income, according to Congressional estimates.
- But the appeal is wearing thin for German and Japanese bankers, who have been forced to absorb tens of billions of dollars in the last few months.
- The powerful new plague absorbed the complete attention of the scientific establishment and billions of dollars.
- Although the Fresh Kills landfill has absorbed billions of New Yorkers' least-wanted items, it occasionally gets their most cherished possessions.
- The industry has absorbed billions of dollars in cost overruns and the armed forces have been forced to kill weapons that they still consider essential.
- And there is no good reason to believe that the consumer sector could absorb billions of rubles more without active, well-functioning markets to manage the transformation.
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