"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
1. costly war = kosztowna wojna costly war
2. costly battle = kosztowna bitwa costly battle
3. costly effort = kosztowny wysiłek costly effort
4. costly campaign = kosztowna kampania costly campaign
5. costly change = kosztowna zmiana costly change
  • Widespread but less costly changes would be required in virtually every city high-rise.
  • A more accurate and complete design means fewer costly, last-minute changes to equipment in production plants.
  • In recent years the program has undergone significant, and costly, changes.
  • Beyond the danger to drivers, there is some concern that this will also be a costly change, with more cars being wrecked.
  • Sony has made a series of costly changes in its entertainment operations.
  • A very costly and fundamental change in veterans' health care should not be done on the fly with a last-minute amendment.
  • Yet passing a big stimulus package now, he said, might make that kind of change too costly to propose in the future.
  • But just how substantive, and how costly the change should be, have been matters of debate.
  • Nor, the court said, had the agency considered less costly changes in the regulations.
  • It announced costly changes late last year that have already resulted in a $200 million write-off against earnings.
6. costly fight = kosztowna walka costly fight
7. costly damage = kosztowne uszkodzenie costly damage
8. costly action = kosztowne działanie costly action
9. costly illness = kosztowna choroba costly illness
10. costly struggle = kosztowna walka costly struggle
11. costly conflict = kosztowny konflikt costly conflict
12. costly expedition = kosztowna wyprawa costly expedition
(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
(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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