"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
(4) major, French
Kolokacji: 2
(5) main, serious, far, severe
Kolokacji: 4
1. serious drain = poważny odpływ serious drain
2. main drain = główny odpływ main drain
3. far drain = daleko odpływ far drain
  • Doubling the limit would also be a further drain on federal and state revenues.
  • The use of mule meat and rats as rations could not maintain the health of the soldiers left standing, and was a further drain on morale.
  • Leeds United would cease to exist, and the loss of 500 jobs would be a further drain on government resources.
  • Once grown to maturity, however, the surfeit of young people were a further drain upon Pomerania's already strained fortunes.
  • We could plan the rest of the day's flight without putting a further drain on the belts' batteries.
  • While First Executive maintains that it could have made the $46.5 million payment due next March, a restructuring would prevent a further drain on company finances.
  • Several other states in the northeast share Connecticut's prospects in those forecasts, augering a further drain of political power from the region.
  • Just finding out what was causing the drought had exhausted Idalia, and whatever was going to happen tonight would be a further drain on her.
  • Paying the interest in the future on the debt held by foreigners means a further drain on the national wealth.
  • He had lost too much blood already, and any further significant drain would severely compro- mise him.
4. severe drain = poważny odpływ severe drain
(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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