"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
3. costly subsidy = drogocenna dotacja costly subsidy
  • Measures to increase American competitiveness could hardly be objected to, at least as long as they did not involve costly subsidies.
  • There were mismanagement and corruption, costly subsidies aimed at keeping food prices low in the volatile cities and declining food production and self-sufficiency.
  • Additionally, some analysts suggested that manufacturing never needed to be sheltered with costly subsidies or import protection.
  • For decades, the traditional approach to economic management has been to prevent corporate failure through heavy regulation and costly subsidies, passing along the burden to consumers and taxpayers.
  • They are extraordinarily costly subsidies - about $250 billion/year in forgone tax revenues.
  • It argued that such construction required costly subsidies stretching over two or three decades.
  • Rather, the priority was efficiency, they say, along with elimination of costly subsidies and debilitating losses.
  • Getting rid of these costly subsidies comes under the heading of restructuring and reconversion.
  • In another example of costly subsidies, gasoline sells for less than 10 cents a gallon.
  • The most pressing priority for Iran, Mr. Adeli says, is to meld its three-tiered exchange rate and eliminate costly subsidies.
(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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