"costly" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

costly adjetivo

costly + sustantivo
Kolokacji: 119
costly mistake • costly war • costly battle • costly program • costly process • ...
collocations grouped by meanings
Grup znaczeniowych: 28
1. costly mistake = kosztowny błąd costly mistake
2. costly error = kosztowny błąd costly error
3. costly interception = kosztowne przechwycenie costly interception
4. costly fumble = kosztowne wypuszczenie piłki costly fumble
5. costly trip = kosztowna podróż costly trip
6. costly blunder = kosztowny błąd costly blunder
  • It lags in developing specialty shops and interactive shopping, areas where previous Penney's efforts have proved costly blunders, he said.
  • How did Shoreham become such a costly blunder?
  • However, Ford also committed a costly blunder in the campaign that halted his momentum.
  • Not to do that is a costly blunder we often see made even by giants in businesses.
  • But after a strong start, Vodafone, which is based in Newbury, England, made a series of costly blunders.
  • Columbia used the wind and two costly blunders by Dartmouth to score three straight times in the second quarter.
  • This sounds like the kind of loosely designed operation that has led the United States into costly military blunders in the past decades.
  • They also know that the swiftest route to recovering from costly blunders must begin with acknowledging what went wrong and who was responsible.
  • The new contract may also have been one of Mr. D'Amato's more costly blunders.
  • But Aegis may be a terribly costly blunder.
(10) disaster, problem, distraction
Kolokacji: 3
(13) delay, disruption
Kolokacji: 2
(14) treatment, drug, intervention
Kolokacji: 3
(16) penalty, incentive, benefit
Kolokacji: 3
(17) gift, acquisition, subsidy
Kolokacji: 3
(19) measure, step, weapon
Kolokacji: 3
(20) hurricane, tornado
Kolokacji: 2
(21) strike, assault, storm
Kolokacji: 3
(22) solution, method
Kolokacji: 2
(23) trial, experiment
Kolokacji: 2
(24) affair, race
Kolokacji: 2
(26) bureaucracy, machine
Kolokacji: 2
(27) dispute, jewel, gem
Kolokacji: 3
(28) import, consequence
Kolokacji: 2
verbo + costly
Kolokacji: 4
prove costly • become costly • grow costly • consider costly
adverbio + costly
Kolokacji: 19
most costly • extremely costly • potentially costly • far more costly • increasingly costly • ...
costly + preposición
Kolokacji: 3
costly for • costly to • costly in

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