"motive" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

motive sustantivo

sustantivo + motive

Kolokacji: 3

profit motive • revenge motive • base motive

Kolokacji: 1

Grup znaczeniowych: 1

(1) profit, revenge, base

Kolokacji: 3

1. profit motive = nastawienie na zysk profit motive

2. revenge motive = motyw zemsty revenge motive

His assailant's or assailants' use of an axe indicated a possible revenge motive.
He hardly looks at this game with the same revenge motive and fervor as, say, Don Maynard did 25 years back.
She went on record to reassure parents that no children were taken with a revenge motive.
Even before people could ask about a revenge motive against Calgary for giving up on him, St. Louis offered an answer.
The melodrama at the end simply fails to come off, and the revenge motive more than once comes perilously close to the comic.
Parcells insisted there was no revenge motive now.
For a while, that led us down a false trail, and eventually to a certain deranged individual, with a strong revenge motive.
The revenge motive in the primal scene.
It's much easier to understand the revenge motive than it is to understand the will to forgive in a case like that.
If they set you up to kill me, it has to be a revenge motive, so we're bound to know them.

3. base motive = motyw podstawy base motive

motive + verbo

Kolokacji: 13

motive appears • motive seems • motive includes • motive varies • motive prompts • ...

verbo + motive

Kolokacji: 14

question one's motives • understand one's motives • explain one's motives • see motives • reveal one's motives • ...

adjetivo + motive

Kolokacji: 93

ulterior motive • political motive • possible motive • real motive • true motive • ...

preposición + motive

Kolokacji: 13

of one's motives • about one's motives • on one's motives • with motives • for motives • ...

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