"tendency" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

tendency sustantivo

tendency + verbo
Kolokacji: 13
tendency makes • tendency leads • tendency causes • tendency exists • tendency seems • ...
verbo + tendency
Kolokacji: 9
show a tendency • display tendencies • exhibit tendencies • represent tendencies • tendency is seen • ...
adjetivo + tendency
Kolokacji: 127
natural tendency • strong tendency • suicidal tendency • general tendency • violent tendency • ...
collocations grouped by meanings
Grup znaczeniowych: 34
(2) strong, occasional
Kolokacji: 2
(8) unfortunate, regrettable
Kolokacji: 2
(12) homosexual, lesbian
Kolokacji: 2
(16) marked, pronounced
Kolokacji: 2
(18) genetic, familial
Kolokacji: 2
(19) disturbing, distressing
Kolokacji: 2
(20) nationalist, nationalistic
Kolokacji: 2
(21) alarming, nasty, disconcerting
Kolokacji: 3
(23) artistic, stylistic, literary
Kolokacji: 3
(24) sadistic, masochistic
Kolokacji: 2
(26) fascist, Communist
Kolokacji: 2
(30) latent, unhealthy
Kolokacji: 2
(31) inevitable, fatal
Kolokacji: 2
1. neurotic tendency = nerwicowa skłonność neurotic tendency
2. workaholic tendency = skłonność pracoholika workaholic tendency
  • She took up tap dancing and cut back on her workaholic tendencies.
  • Later the ghost shows how his success in business made him become obsessive and develop a workaholic tendency.
  • Her workaholic tendencies do not include searching for a project that might win her an Academy Award, she says.
  • He has his workaholic tendencies under better control, he suggests: "Definitely have eased up some, but it's still at times too much."
  • When he married again in 1983, his second wife, Joan, took over the household responsibilities, freeing him to indulge his workaholic tendencies.
  • It is both a manual to help women fight workaholic tendencies, and a personal history.
  • Keats joked that he had an empty social life and workaholic tendencies.
  • It was this workaholic tendency, he said, that brought on his recent divorce.
  • He works well with Conner because of their work ethic but he has workaholic tendencies that affect his marriage.
3. compulsive tendency = nałogowa skłonność compulsive tendency
4. narcissistic tendency = narcystyczna skłonność narcissistic tendency
(34) overwhelming, high
Kolokacji: 2
preposición + tendency
Kolokacji: 12
for one's tendency • of tendencies • in one's tendency • about one's tendency • with a tendency • ...

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