"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
  • It was to be the largest and costliest war in Utah history.
  • Iran's economy is deteriorating after seven years of the costly war with Iraq.
  • As a result, Germany was forced to face a long, costly war on two fronts.
  • But after more than seven years of costly war in Nicaragua, it surely is worth a try.
  • We are simply the front line, the first battle of what may turn out to be a very long and costly war.
  • Why then must we engage in a costly war to realize the same objective?
  • Still, the two countries have many shared economic interests, and neither wants to see a costly new cold war.
  • But I don't think this is going to be a long and costly war.
  • The new administration pushed for an end to the costly war.
  • "But no matter where the government is, we must prepare to finance a most 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
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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