"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
(22) solution, method
Kolokacji: 2
(23) trial, experiment
Kolokacji: 2
(24) affair, race
Kolokacji: 2
1. costly model = kosztowny model costly model
2. costly expansion = kosztowny rozwój costly expansion
  • World War II, for example, looks like an extremely successful, if costly, expansion of Coca-Cola's worldwide market.
  • Some Javits customers said they were shocked at how little exhibition space will be added by this costly expansion.
  • Mr. Thompson, who as Wisconsin governor put in place a tough welfare-to-work law, accompanied it with a costly expansion of services to needy workers.
  • Still, the costly expansion was not without controversy.
  • The company went out of business this summer after a costly expansion into retail stores.
  • The company has also shied away from costly expansions into television production or other businesses, thus avoiding perils that have hurt other companies.
  • After a costly expansion in the late 1960's, the company was bailed out by a loan from the Ontario provincial government.
  • Some companies and their investors, spurred by the prospect of large profits in the Arkoma Basin, have forged ahead with costly expansions.
  • Some big shareholders are also raising doubts about Mr. Levin's costly expansion into cable and telephone services.
  • We make expansion inconvenient, costly; we herd the beast to its wider pastures in the other direction.
3. costly form = kosztowna forma costly form
4. costly version = kosztowna wersja costly version
(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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