"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
(20) hurricane, tornado
Kolokacji: 2
(21) strike, assault, storm
Kolokacji: 3
1. costly strike = kosztowny strajk costly strike
  • Could the players have gained even this one extra season under the old system without the costly strike?
  • It cost $45 million but avoided a costly strike.
  • Some union leaders also worry that the costly strike has weakened the union's bargaining position in talks with other airlines.
  • More than 250,000 black miners agreed today to end South Africa's largest and costliest strike after three weeks.
  • He warned that a costly strike could cause the authority to reduce its offer.
  • These people are letting themselves be used to break a costly strike.
  • But it seemed to me the only way to avoid a costly strike.
  • But the costly strike had the beneficial side effect of shrinking swollen dealer inventories.
  • In the short term, Delphi will face another challenge: getting through the year without a costly strike.
  • It began shortly after the costly 17-week strike ended in December 1989.
2. costly storm = kosztowna burza costly storm
3. costly assault = kosztowna napaść costly assault
(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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