"defeat" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

defeat sustantivo

sustantivo + defeat
Kolokacji: 25
election defeat • defeat of the army • home defeat • league defeat • landslide defeat • ...
defeat + verbo
Kolokacji: 27
defeat comes • defeat leaves • defeat leads • defeat means • defeat ends • ...
verbo + defeat
Kolokacji: 58
concede defeat • admit defeat • accept defeat • make in a defeat • lead to one's defeat • score in a defeat • play in the defeat • ...
adjetivo + defeat
Kolokacji: 123
humiliating defeat • major defeat • final defeat • bad defeat • military defeat • heavy defeat • electoral defeat • decisive defeat • ...
collocations grouped by meanings
Grup znaczeniowych: 31
(1) humiliating, humbling
Kolokacji: 2
1. major defeat = ważna porażka major defeat
2. legislative defeat = ustawodawcza porażka legislative defeat
3. controversial defeat = kontrowersyjna porażka controversial defeat
4. legal defeat = prawna porażka legal defeat
  • Or the basic calculation could prove to be wrong, with legal defeat leading not to political victory but only to more defeat.
  • This legal defeat has by no means put an end to creation- science.
  • Will the legal defeat of two file-sharing companies change anything?
  • As a lawyer, did the mayor learn anything from his expensive legal defeat over the "Sensation" exhibition in 1999?
  • But what seemed like a major legal defeat was an important political victory.
  • But the book gives a fine account of how one man's persistence resulted in total legal defeat of what was the country's largest corporate entity.
  • Scimed Life Systems shares jumped after analysts said a legal defeat would cost the company less than expected.
  • The legal defeat for the governor, a Republican, came on the eve of public hearings investigating whether he should be impeached.
  • But lawyers familiar with the case said it was a legal defeat that might have been avoided if prosecutors had sought a much narrower indictment.
  • And that modification led to a legal defeat.
(5) military, naval, tactical
Kolokacji: 3
(9) only, single, lone
Kolokacji: 3
(15) Australian, American
Kolokacji: 2
(17) political, professional
Kolokacji: 2
(21) friendly, personal
Kolokacji: 2
(22) stinging, bloody
Kolokacji: 2
(26) Japanese, Iraqi
Kolokacji: 2
(27) quick, rapid, swift
Kolokacji: 3
(29) Italian, Roman
Kolokacji: 2
(30) Russian, Soviet, Royalist
Kolokacji: 3
(31) Greek, Athenian
Kolokacji: 2
preposición + defeat
Kolokacji: 22
of defeat • from defeat • after one's defeat • to one's defeat • following one's defeat • ...

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