"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
(14) treatment, drug, intervention
Kolokacji: 3
(16) penalty, incentive, benefit
Kolokacji: 3
(17) gift, acquisition, subsidy
Kolokacji: 3
1. costly gift = drogocenny prezent costly gift
2. costly acquisition = drogocenny zakup costly acquisition
  • Merrill has learned through experience how costly foreign acquisitions can be.
  • The resulting profits financed costly acquisitions and management mistakes.
  • The patched-together product of several costly acquisitions, Shearson in 1990 required an injection of $750 million from its corporate parent.
  • Standard & Poor's said yesterday that it had put the company's debt on review for a possible downgrade, citing management miscues and costly acquisitions.
  • General Electric's costly acquisition of RCA, for example, resulted in less research for both.
  • The performance of Global, the unit that provides voice, data and Internet services to businesses, explains the concern over efforts to expand the operation through costly acquisitions.
  • "They are interested in paying down debt, as it was a costly acquisition," he added.
  • Investor enthusiasm was evident in Disney's stock price, which did not decline on news of the costly acquisition.
  • The Yankees defended the costly acquisition by saying they have to pay only half of Mondesi's $11 million salary this season.
  • The money received would be used in part to acquire other assets that would make it a more costly acquisition.
3. costly subsidy = drogocenna dotacja costly subsidy
(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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