"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
2. costly victory = kosztowne zwycięstwo costly victory
3. costly defeat = kosztowna porażka costly defeat
4. costly flop = kosztowna klapa costly flop
  • Several costly flops, including Cleopatra and Hello, Dolly!
  • Still, in several recent national races, and contests in other states, wealthy businessmen have spent millions underwriting their own candidacies only to produce costly flops.
  • They had recently had a few costly flops, but that is practically a producer's birthright.
  • Despite its sterling pedigree, that show, plagued by road troubles and coinciding with a newspaper strike, was a costly flop.
  • The closing of the show, with its large 26-member cast and elaborate sets, makes it one of the costliest flops Broadway has ever been home to.
  • "The Sunday Telegraph reported this week that the Dutch high speech line is a costly flop, to be avoided "
  • One major reason is spelled "Last Action Hero," Columbia Studios' costly 1993 flop.
  • But "Last Action Hero," 1992, was a costly flop that began a career slide for Mr. Schwarzenegger.
  • At $12 million, "Dance" ranks among the most expensive musicals in Broadway history and would be one of its costliest flops.
  • Disney and Paramount have been at the forefront of an industrywide effort to hold down production costs and avoid costly flops.
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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