"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
(10) disaster, problem, distraction
Kolokacji: 3
(13) delay, disruption
Kolokacji: 2
1. costly delay = kosztowne opóźnienie costly delay
2. costly disruption = kosztowne zakłócenie costly disruption
  • The contamination caused a costly disruption in the nation's grain-handling system and forced the recall of more than 300 kinds of corn chips, taco shells and other foods.
  • Most important, higher imports are vulnerable to costly disruptions of supply.
  • Europe's powerful labor unions are fighting a rear-guard action that guarantees many tense moments and more than a few costly disruptions.
  • I urge the Armed Services Conference Committee to avoid a costly disruption and to keep the MC-12 program where it's already working.
  • Tommi A. White, chief operating officer of Compuware, said that many companies were frustrated with troubled systems that caused costly disruptions in assembly lines or distribution.
  • The result has been a costly disruption to the nation's grain-handling system.
  • And if Congress does not restore the agency's funds by Friday, Mr. Pavlou said, there will be another round of costly disruptions.
  • The Chernobyl accident, which killed 31 people and sent a radiation plume across Europe, was recognized instantly as a costly economic disruption.
  • We need to get our arms around it before people do get serious about making costly, costly disruptions a way of life.
  • Despite repeated inspections of the school by both the board and the construction agency, discoveries of asbestos have twice caused costly disruptions.
(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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