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"costly" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

costly adjetivo

costly + sustantivo
Kolokacji: 119
costly mistake • costly war • costly battle • costly program • costly process • ...
colocaciones frecuentes
Kolokacji: 6
collocations grouped by meanings
Grup znaczeniowych: 28
(1) mistake, error, interception, fumble, trip, ...
Kolokacji: 6
(2) war, battle, effort, campaign, change, ...
Kolokacji: 12
(3) program, system, burden, plan, arrangement
Kolokacji: 5
(4) process, procedure, operation, regulation, technology, ...
Kolokacji: 8
(5) litigation, lawsuit, mandate, divorce, suit, ...
Kolokacji: 6
(6) failure, victory, defeat, flop, setback
Kolokacji: 5
(7) project, undertaking, endeavor, enterprise, task, ...
Kolokacji: 6
(8) alternative, option, decision
Kolokacji: 3
(9) way, proposition, approach, luxury, proposal
Kolokacji: 5
(10) disaster, problem, distraction
Kolokacji: 3
(11) item, one, ingredient, piece, component
Kolokacji: 5
(12) repair, service, care, renovation, cleanup, ...
Kolokacji: 8
(13) delay, disruption
Kolokacji: 2
(14) treatment, drug, intervention
Kolokacji: 3
(15) turnover, investment, venture, production, business, ...
Kolokacji: 6
(16) penalty, incentive, benefit
Kolokacji: 3
(17) gift, acquisition, subsidy
Kolokacji: 3
1. costly gift = drogocenny prezent costly gift
  • His visits and costly gifts had all the conventions of betrothal.
  • Not at all convinced, Mara turned towards the reflecting glass, a costly gift from a clan leader on her wedding day.
  • She spent great amounts of money on clothes and jewelry and also received many costly gifts from Anna.
  • The contrast between his sisters' costly gifts and Emily's struck him as being almost cruel.
  • Both women have since had more sophisticated and costly gifts, but none that are remembered with more delight.
  • Sometimes, Eleanor had problems, which came with such costly gifts of her mother-in-law.
  • He also bestowed numerous costly gifts on the poor and clergy throughout his penance.
  • He had been cool in his welcome to them six days earlier, and clearly disappointed that they had not brought more costly gifts.
  • "But how can I take such a costly gift?"
  • I could never accept such a costly gift.
2. costly acquisition = drogocenny zakup costly acquisition
3. costly subsidy = drogocenna dotacja costly subsidy
(18) equipment, material, fabric, robe, duplication
Kolokacji: 5
(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
(25) expansion, model, form, version
Kolokacji: 4
(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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