"stiff" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

stiff adjetivo

stiff + sustantivo
Kolokacji: 122
stiff competition • stiff resistance • stiff penalty • stiff neck • stiff opposition • stiff lip • stiff breeze • stiff drink • stiff wind • ...
collocations grouped by meanings
Grup znaczeniowych: 28
(6) sentence, peak, term
Kolokacji: 3
(7) finger, hand, forefinger
Kolokacji: 3
(8) hair, dose, whisker, stride
Kolokacji: 4
(11) muscle, nipple
Kolokacji: 2
(12) price, requirement
Kolokacji: 2
(15) paper, plastic, cardboard
Kolokacji: 3
(16) leaf, wire, blade
Kolokacji: 3
(20) spring, climb
Kolokacji: 2
(21) posture, attention
Kolokacji: 2
(22) jab, jolt, shock, punch, belt
Kolokacji: 5
(24) gait, ride, stalk
Kolokacji: 3
(25) tax, tariff
Kolokacji: 2
1. stiff tax = wysoki podatek stiff tax
  • But many health authorities believe a stiff additional tax, say $1 or $2 a pack, would do more to discourage smoking than anything in this deal.
  • Many who inherited land, for example, have held off selling it because so much of the revenue would go to Japan's stiff progressive tax.
  • Officials have already moved to contain land prices, imposing stiff taxes on speculative purchases.
  • Banks are tottering, and the medicine he prescribes is a stiff new tax.
  • What that means is that Congress can levy a stiff new tax on cigarettes, something it may well do.
  • Failure to meet the minimum would be discouraged with stiff taxes on any shortfall.
  • Nearly every other industrial country - even Britain, an oil exporter - puts stiff taxes on fuel.
  • A stiff tax would assure that the more a candidate spent on TV, the greater the subsidy for his or her rivals.
  • What we should have is a stiff tax on energy waste - whether in gasoline, hydroelectricity, oil, coal, gas or nuclear.
  • In addition this bill imposes a stiff minimum tax, which is also important.
2. stiff tariff = ostry cennik stiff tariff
(26) grass, rod, dough, corpse
Kolokacji: 4
(27) reply, note
Kolokacji: 2
(28) scotch, whiskey
Kolokacji: 2
verbo + stiff
Kolokacji: 13
feel stiff • go stiff • stand stiff • grow stiff • look stiff • ...
adverbio + stiff
Kolokacji: 13
pretty stiff • somewhat stiff • slightly stiff • fairly stiff • increasingly stiff • ...
stiff + preposición
Kolokacji: 6
stiff with • stiff in • stiff from • stiff for • stiff on • ...

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