"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
(26) bureaucracy, machine
Kolokacji: 2
(27) dispute, jewel, gem
Kolokacji: 3
1. costly dispute = kosztowny spór costly dispute
  • Mr. Hayes was hired to help the company resolve a costly dispute with a federal agency and also to lobby federal energy regulators.
  • Recent legislation (particularly the Employment Act 2002) has stressed the importance of employees and employers resolving their differences between them prior to starting costly legal disputes.
  • It was a costly dispute.
  • "America's decision will, I fear, spark the biggest, most difficult and costly legal dispute in the W.T.O.'s history," said Peter Mandelson, Europe's trade commissioner.
  • Ms. Miers built her private practice around commercial litigation, handling often costly disputes between large companies, contract disputes and, a few times, class-action lawsuits.
  • The outcome of a damaging and costly dispute has resulted in substantial progress towards a more realistic and effective way of working".
  • All too often, friction mounts, positions become entrenched and the courts are left to adjudicate the costly disputes.
  • The perception among league negotiators and owners as they began this lockout on July 1 seemed to be that the players would have no stomach for a prolonged, costly dispute.
  • The tour, and the costly disputes, continued with the rebels eventually setting sail for home a week earlier than their colleagues.
2. costly jewel = kosztowny klejnot costly jewel
3. costly gem = kosztowny kamień szlachetny costly gem
(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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