"drain" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

drain sustantivo

sustantivo + drain

Kolokacji: 15

brain drain • storm drain • power drain • energy drain • blood drain • ...

drain + sustantivo

Kolokacji: 16

drain pipe • drain hole • drain opening • drain plug • drain line • ...

adjetivo + drain

Kolokacji: 22

financial drain • constant drain • big drain • huge drain • major drain • ...

Kolokacji: 1

Grup znaczeniowych: 6

(1) financial, economic

Kolokacji: 2

1. financial drain = finansowy odpływ financial drain

2. economic drain = gospodarczy odpływ economic drain

The announcement comes just two years after the city largely abandoned recycling as an economic drain in a time of budget cutbacks.
The big economic drain, they said, has been the sluggish real estate market.
In this manner, she was able to prove her worth to the company without being an economic drain on them.
Illegitimate children could also be a considerable economic drain on their family, while giving little back.
The continuing economic drain caused by the military campaigns in Africa was exacerbated by the first great oil "shock" of 1973.
Supporters say that capitation encourages preventive care, because if a patient becomes sick he will be a greater economic drain on the clinic.
He saw it as an economic drain and realised its damaging effect on Moscow's international relations.
"I do not believe it would cause an economic drain, especially since small business is exempt," she said in explaining her support of the family-leave bill.
At the same time, she provides comfort to western Germans who were suspicious about the economic and social drain of reunification.
The movement into modern globalization was marked with the economic drain of capital into Europe.

(2) constant, emotional, steady, net

Kolokacji: 4

Kolokacji: 7

(4) major, French

Kolokacji: 2

(5) main, serious, far, severe

Kolokacji: 4

(6) clogged, open, liquid

Kolokacji: 3

preposición + drain

Kolokacji: 4

down the drain • into a drain • of the drain • in the drain

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