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cost of living
noun
- the average cost of food, clothing, and other necessary or usual goods and services paid by a person, family, etc., or considered as a standard by the members of a group.
cost of living
noun
- the basic cost of the food, clothing, shelter, and fuel necessary to maintain life, esp at a standard regarded as basic or minimal
- ( as modifier )
the cost-of-living index
- the average expenditure of a person or family in a given period
cost of living
- The average cost of the basic necessities of life, including food, shelter, and clothing.
Notes
Other Words From
- cost-of-living adjective
Word History and Origins
Origin of cost of living1
Example Sentences
Move to “chained CPI” for cost-of-living increases in Social Security payments?
He was ready to tweak the cost-of-living formula for Social Security.
You can debate which cost-of-living adjustment is more accurate, but there is nothing sacrosanct about any given metric.
Frigging Florida labor laws meant that you had to give cost-of-living raises every year, and it added up.
The best cost-of-living news of the past year is that double-digit inflation of 12 percent or higher was cut almost in half.
Also, my Administration was the first to seek a cost-of-living increase for the recipients of VA compensation every year.
Next year, tax rates will be indexed so inflation can't push people into higher brackets when they get cost-of-living pay raises.
In all, he had mediated thirty-two strikes, sat on two arbitration boards, made three cost-of-living surveys for the Government.
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