"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
(19) measure, step, weapon
Kolokacji: 3
1. costly measure = kosztowny wskaźnik costly measure
2. costly step = kosztowny krok costly step
3. costly weapon = kosztowna broń costly weapon
  • There's less willingness to lunge for costly high-tech weapons because of rumors the Soviets already have them.
  • This is why the big dealers will continue to arm their juvenile hit men with the latest, costliest weapons.
  • That means bigger spending on the least politically attractive part of the military budget, basic personnel salaries, and less for costly new weapons systems.
  • It was a costly and beautifully made weapon of the period, with an under-lever action.
  • SO who serves as the overseer for the biggest military contractors and their costly weapons?
  • It can safely be cut further by limiting or eliminating purchases of unnecessary and costly new weapons systems.
  • If even a costly weapon of such marginal military utility cannot be shot down, how will the Pentagon budget ever be brought under control?
  • The most costly weapon - massive discharge of noxious fluid - is reserved for last when all other tactics have failed.
  • Leaders of several groups have warned that the White House seems bent on paying for missile defense and other costly weapons by cutting conventional forces.
  • Today, the five costliest weapons total $550 billion, with many weapons on both lists.
(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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