"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

(2) constant, emotional, steady, net

Kolokacji: 4

1. constant drain = stały odpływ constant drain

2. emotional drain = emocjonalny odpływ emotional drain

3. steady drain = równy odpływ steady drain

4. net drain = odpływ netto net drain

I've seen it estimated both ways, but the most compelling argument I've seen is that it is a small net drain.
What proportion of initiatives has been simply unachievable, futile or a net drain?
Although OTB is losing money on its betting operations, it is still not a net drain on the city's budget.
Foreign investment totaled $6.3 billion in the first quarter, Mr. Kasyanov said, compared with a net drain of $1 billion a month a year earlier.
That's a net drain on the tax base.
Q. Are trade-agreement critics justified in saying such agreements - Nafta, for example - have caused a net drain in American jobs?
Draftees with less than two years' retention were said to be a net drain on military resources providing insufficient benefit to offset overhead costs of using them.
The net drain on the holodeck's power allotment was relatively small.
What's more, the endowment tends to be an overall net drain on most universities.
Although the Soviet Union was the world's second leading agricultural producer and ranked first in the production of numerous commodities, agriculture was a net drain on the economy.

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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