"devote" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

devote verbo

devote + sustantivo
Kolokacji: 23
devote resources • devote attention • devote one's time • devote one's life • devote one's energies • devote one's efforts • ...
2. devote an amount = poświęć ilość devote an amount
3. devote money = poświęć pieniądze devote money
4. devote several percent = poświęcać kilka procent devote several percent
  • Today, devoting 30 percent of family income to housing is considered standard, although many young families pay more.
  • "Our children are grown up, so we can devote 110 percent to the project."
  • "It was just better business to devote 100 percent of staff effort to the new system," she said.
  • Her bill would require companies with more than 1,000 employees to devote 8 percent of their payroll to health insurance.
  • You both will probably devote 35 to 40 percent of your wedding budget to the reception.
  • In 1973, for example, we devoted 26.5 percent of the gross national product to investment by Americans and to education.
  • You cannot expect business people to devote 100 percent of their profits to good works.
  • Now our city government is stepping in to say they can only devote 40 percent of their sales space to those products.
  • By comparison, no other country devotes more than 10 percent of its economy to health.
  • Our economy can clearly afford to devote 5.6 percent of the gross national product to defense.
(3) time, chapter, hour, decade
Kolokacji: 4
(4) effort, rest, part, half
Kolokacji: 4
(5) space, page
Kolokacji: 2
(6) deal, millions, thousands
Kolokacji: 3
verbo + devote
Kolokacji: 7
decide to devote • resign to devote • want to devote • begin devoting • devote to making • ...
devote + preposición
Kolokacji: 17
devote to • devote with • devote in • devote for • devote at • ...
devote + adjetivo/adverbio
Kolokacji: 7
devote solely • devote primarily • devote entirely • devote mainly • devote largely • ...

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