Similar words: the cost of living, living cost, standard of living, at the cost of, living, living thing, non-living, living wage. Meaning: n. average cost of basic necessities of life (as food and shelter and clothing).
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31 the cost of living.
32 Old people are hardest hit by the rising cost of living.
33 The cost of living continued to rise in wartime.
34 It had to, for the cost of living soared.
35 A cost of living index based more widely than on wheat, gives the estimates in Table 7.4.
36 Machungo told the meeting that, despite the high cost of living, there was no alternative to the economic recovery programme.
37 Old age pensions were increased and cuts imposed in 1989 on public-sector salaries were restored together with some cost of living allowance arrears. Sentencedict.com
38 A pro-growth atmosphere, relatively low cost of living and sunny climate draw businesses in droves.
39 I stayed on the club's committee, even though the burden of the general cost of living made me change address.
40 They are suddenly faced with finding a place to rent and budgeting the cost of living.
41 The Trotskyist movement has long advocated a sliding scale of wages to meet the rising cost of living.
42 They had backed up huge demands for cost of living allowances and then found that they had to find the money.
43 Workers refuse to hire on for less, because cost of living is higher on the border than farther south.
44 In Britain, for example, there is no excuse for not knowing recent trends in the cost of living.
45 Husbands can easily get out of touch with the cost of living unless they do the shopping regularly and see the bills.
46 The low cost of living makes such evenings a real pleasure.
47 The cost of living makes it difficult for young people to survive in San Francisco, according to Ted.
48 Since so much has to be imported, the local cost of living is high.
49 Union teachers might not get a cost of living increase, but they could negotiate with the local ice cream factory.
50 She's moving to Oregon to escape the high cost of living in Silicon Valley.
51 Many old people have to live in poverty because of the steady rise in the cost of living.
52 Check the comparative cost of living overseas as well as job prospects and wages.
53 It would delay cost of living adjustments three months over each of the next five years for federal civilian retirees.
54 It is facile to employ cost of living indices or indices of neo-natal mortality without knowing how the figures are calculated.
55 The incredibly low cost of living makes such evenings a real pleasure.
56 According to the government, it's a figure which isn't expected to bear any relation to the minimum cost of living.
57 Although the cost of living was very much less than it is now, schoolteachers' salaries were modest.
58 Often Tucson has been compared to Austin, Texas for its size, cost of living, and growth potential.
59 This seems to reflect primarily the increasing cost of school fees, combined with rises in the cost of living.
60 And pensions have not been going up at the same rate as the cost of living.
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