"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 project = kosztowny projekt costly project
2. costly undertaking = kosztowne przedsięwzięcie costly undertaking
3. costly endeavor = kosztowne dążenia costly endeavor
4. costly task = kosztowne zadanie costly task
5. costly enterprise = kosztowne przedsięwzięcie costly enterprise
6. costly initiative = kosztowna inicjatywa costly initiative
  • One major concern was the appropriateness of a costly new initiative in the face of a possible budget crisis.
  • But the most costly initiative would be to keep taxes low.
  • Instead, he used the National Economic Council, which he once directed, to come up with a series of less costly urban initiatives.
  • Besides Hammer, the campaign has hired Kool and the Gang and other American pop groups as part of its costly "cultural initiative."
  • A less successful and costly initiative was a settlement of Maroons from Jamaica who were instead resettled in Sierra Leone.
  • The news coincided with Mr. Spano's announcements of some costly initiatives, including a $50 million plan over five years to acquire open space.
  • Skeptics wonder if, for all their idealism, Greens can make any more of a difference on local issues than conventional politicians, because so few costly initiatives can be addressed without state support.
  • Environmental groups called the proposal a thinly veiled and costly initiative to elevate industry profits above health and safety concerns.
  • As we talked in the Oval Office, Obama acknowledged that the succession of so many costly initiatives, necessary as they may have been, wore on the public.
  • In addition to its costly local initiatives, the company has suffered an erosion in its core long-distance business.
(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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