"modest" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

modest adjetivo

modest + sustantivo
Kolokacji: 257
modest success • modest increase • modest mean • modest amount • modest home • modest gain • modest house • modest man • ...
collocations grouped by meanings
Grup znaczeniowych: 52
(3) mean, correlation
Kolokacji: 2
(13) budget, fund
Kolokacji: 2
(16) goal, aim, business, objective
Kolokacji: 4
(22) recovery, rebound, rally
Kolokacji: 3
(25) room, crowd
Kolokacji: 2
(29) reform, upturn
Kolokacji: 2
1. modest reform = skromna reforma modest reform
  • At least this time they are actually considering a sensible, if modest, reform of the laws.
  • In the end, the Government settled on a far more modest reform.
  • The modest reform boosted revenues by 25% in the following year, but was still nowhere near enough to cover the gap.
  • Initially, this could be done by instituting two fairly modest reforms.
  • The Government could probably have ended the protests early on by making modest reforms.
  • This modest reform wouldn't even ban lobbying by taxpayer-funded groups.
  • But, because of the industry's political clout, there is no guarantee that even these modest reforms will be enacted.
  • So the Bush administration wants to scrap a retirement system that works, and can be made financially sound for generations to come with modest reforms.
  • "Disclosure by secret 527 political organizations is one modest reform we can still enact before this year's election."
  • The failure of his modest liberal reforms turned him to the right, and he returned as a reactionary.
2. modest upturn = niewielka poprawa modest upturn
(32) expectation, hope, optimism
Kolokacji: 3
(33) return, comeback
Kolokacji: 2
(34) neighborhood, bottle
Kolokacji: 2
(35) fortune, portion, one
Kolokacji: 3
(38) version, revision, credential
Kolokacji: 3
(39) woman, pickup, girl
Kolokacji: 3
(40) sign, gesture, smile
Kolokacji: 3
(42) wine, meal, taste
Kolokacji: 3
(43) storefront, shop
Kolokacji: 2
(46) residence, hut
Kolokacji: 2
(47) rent, tax, revenue, estate
Kolokacji: 4
(48) rating, headquarters
Kolokacji: 2
(49) Mussorgsky, following, lead
Kolokacji: 3
(50) reputation, estimate
Kolokacji: 2
(52) airplay
Kolokacji: 1
verbo + modest
Kolokacji: 3
look modest • sound modest • consider modest
adverbio + modest
Kolokacji: 22
relatively modest • most modest • fairly modest • comparatively modest • extremely modest • ...
modest + preposición
Kolokacji: 8
modest in • modest about • modest by • modest to • modest with • ...

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