"mean" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

mean sustantivo

sustantivo + mean
Kolokacji: 13
mean of escape • mean of communication • mean of transportation • mean of transport • mean of production • mean of support • ...
mean + verbo
Kolokacji: 36
reproduced by any means • mean makes • mean achieves • mean gets • mean exists • ...
(2) exist, obtain, live
Kolokacji: 3
(5) use, enforce, employ
Kolokacji: 3
(6) justify, defend
Kolokacji: 2
1. mean justifies = oznaczać usprawiedliwia mean justifies
  • I didn't have the mental means to justify spend-ing $1,600 on clothes, on sale or not.
  • And the way it destroys isn't always meaningful (the means do not justify the ends).
  • He never denied he was a lying pig who would use any means to justify his better end.
  • "I just don't think the means could ever justify the end," he said.
  • As Republicans increasingly use any means to justify their partisan ends, that system has never been more critical.
  • You perhaps will find some means to justify my poor guiltless Justine.
  • In his heat to win, he had let the means justify the end, and so destroyed the value of that end.
  • History has shown that to some presidents, any means justified the end.
  • Even though this principle works, I do not know that the means justify the ends.
  • The means never justified the ends-but he had been fighting solely in self-defense.
2. mean defends = oznaczać broni mean defends
(7) test, control, define, prove
Kolokacji: 4
verbo + mean
Kolokacji: 49
find means • use means • seek means • justify the means • provide a means • live within one's means • ...
adjetivo + mean
Kolokacji: 222
only mean • effective mean • primary mean • modest mean • necessary mean • legal mean • peaceful mean • mechanical mean • ...
preposición + mean
Kolokacji: 18
without means • by means • through means • beyond one's means • within one's means • ...

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