"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 • ...
(1) financial, economic
Kolokacji: 2
1. constant drain = stały odpływ constant drain
  • The constant physical drain was telling on them all.
  • Also this central banking mechanism is a constant drain on society.
  • Not only were stone castles expensive to build in the first place, but their maintenance was a constant drain.
  • Maintenance was a constant drain on them and could not be ignored even now.
  • With the constant drain on their numbers, producing was important.
  • The constant drain of Threadfall was having a devastating effect on supplies and resources.
  • It would be like a constant drain of information.
  • He been waiting for her, eager to collapse the Gate which was a constant drain on him.
  • The churchyard continues to be 'a constant drain on church finances'.
  • "I, for one, have never been reconciled to this constant drain on the Ship's mass."
2. emotional drain = emocjonalny odpływ emotional drain
3. steady drain = równy odpływ steady drain
4. net drain = odpływ netto net drain
(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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