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"costly" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

costly adjetivo

costly + sustantivo
Kolokacji: 119
costly mistake • costly war • costly battle • costly program • costly process • ...
colocaciones frecuentes
Kolokacji: 6
collocations grouped by meanings
Grup znaczeniowych: 28
(1) mistake, error, interception, fumble, trip, ...
Kolokacji: 6
(2) war, battle, effort, campaign, change, ...
Kolokacji: 12
(3) program, system, burden, plan, arrangement
Kolokacji: 5
(4) process, procedure, operation, regulation, technology, ...
Kolokacji: 8
(5) litigation, lawsuit, mandate, divorce, suit, ...
Kolokacji: 6
(6) failure, victory, defeat, flop, setback
Kolokacji: 5
(7) project, undertaking, endeavor, enterprise, task, ...
Kolokacji: 6
1. costly project = kosztowny projekt costly project
2. costly undertaking = kosztowne przedsięwzięcie costly undertaking
3. costly endeavor = kosztowne dążenia costly endeavor
  • The winning of heathen souls was proving to be a costly endeavor.
  • Despite this win, the fact remains that breeding giant pandas is a challenging and costly endeavor.
  • "But it's very obvious to me that this is going to be a prolonged and costly endeavor."
  • Might it rather be a panacea for the more costly endeavor of upgrading passenger screening?
  • The parochial schools do not provide special education, a costly endeavor.
  • In any event, naming is a costly endeavor.
  • A costly endeavor, that- but then, spies were in the business of being difficult to identify.
  • Historic restoration, they point out, is a costly endeavor, something that many elected officials failed to appreciate.
  • In addition, a transcontinental railroad would become a very costly endeavor.
  • To do so, it will have to come up with a regulatory scheme, among other costly endeavors.
4. costly task = kosztowne zadanie costly task
5. costly enterprise = kosztowne przedsięwzięcie costly enterprise
6. costly initiative = kosztowna inicjatywa costly initiative
(8) alternative, option, decision
Kolokacji: 3
(9) way, proposition, approach, luxury, proposal
Kolokacji: 5
(10) disaster, problem, distraction
Kolokacji: 3
(11) item, one, ingredient, piece, component
Kolokacji: 5
(12) repair, service, care, renovation, cleanup, ...
Kolokacji: 8
(13) delay, disruption
Kolokacji: 2
(14) treatment, drug, intervention
Kolokacji: 3
(15) turnover, investment, venture, production, business, ...
Kolokacji: 6
(16) penalty, incentive, benefit
Kolokacji: 3
(17) gift, acquisition, subsidy
Kolokacji: 3
(18) equipment, material, fabric, robe, duplication
Kolokacji: 5
(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
(25) expansion, model, form, version
Kolokacji: 4
(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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