"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 way = kosztowna droga costly way
2. costly proposition = kosztowna propozycja costly proposition
  • This is a costly proposition and can require a massive time investment to achieve only marginal success.
  • Appealing to local tastes is a costly proposition, however.
  • After all, he said, illegal immigrants who are ineligible for Medicaid simply end up in hospital emergency rooms, a far costlier proposition.
  • Replacing those who leave, after all, is a costly proposition.
  • But continuing the series would clearly have been a costly proposition.
  • She and her husband, Mark, a retired engineer, have found creating an education to serve Alia a costly proposition.
  • Owners of large estates are usually more concerned with keeping up the main house, a costly proposition these days.
  • Thus privatization is a costly proposition for New York City.
  • It was a costly proposition, made even more challenging by the rough and rugged terrain the tracks had to traverse.
  • "Economic success has a way of making war look like an ever more costly proposition," he writes.
3. costly approach = kosztowne podejście costly approach
4. costly luxury = kosztowny luksus costly luxury
5. costly proposal = kosztowna propozycja costly proposal
(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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