"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 failure = kosztowne niepowodzenie costly failure
  • But some Federal managers say the program could well result in one of history's costliest failures.
  • There have been far more costly failures than this one.
  • Careful decision making during drug development is essential to avoid costly failures.
  • Some people seemed to take a kind of solace in the costly failures.
  • But some say the program, which represents nothing less than a new strategic goal, could result in a costly failure.
  • Some international press and financial market analysts considered the interventions a "costly failure".
  • However, none took place and the expedition was a costly failure.
  • This Government will not allow that costly failure to continue.
  • The operation proved a costly failure, but the lessons, hard learned, were used later.
  • I think when most people see costly failures like these, they are pretty reluctant to agree to more policy on the issue.
2. costly victory = kosztowne zwycięstwo costly victory
3. costly defeat = kosztowna porażka costly defeat
4. costly flop = kosztowna klapa costly flop
5. costly setback = kosztowna komplikacja costly setback
(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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