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Princeton's WordNet

  1. cost of livingnoun

    average cost of basic necessities of life (as food and shelter and clothing)

    "a rise in the cost of living reflects the rate of inflation"

Wiktionary

  1. cost of livingnoun

    The average cost of a standard set of basic necessities of life, especially of food, shelter and clothing

Wikipedia

  1. Cost of living

    Cost of living is the cost of maintaining a certain standard of living. Changes in the cost of living over time can be operationalized in a cost-of-living index. Cost of living calculations are also used to compare the cost of maintaining a certain standard of living in different geographic areas. Differences in cost of living between locations can be measured in terms of purchasing power parity rates.

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  1. cost of living

    Cost of living refers to the amount of money an individual or household needs to maintain a certain standard of living in a particular location. It includes necessary expenses such as housing, food, taxes, healthcare, education, utilities, and transportation. The cost of living is often used to compare how expensive it is to live in one city or country versus another.

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  1. Cost of Living

    "Cost of Living" is the name of the 120th episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation. The 20th episode of the fifth season.

Editors Contribution

  1. cost of living

    The amount of money required to sustain a certain and specific standard of living.

    At present the cost of living is specific in each country, as we move forward and have a planetary currency the plan is it is going to be equal and identical in each country.


    Submitted by MaryC on January 22, 2021  

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of cost of living in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of cost of living in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of cost of living in a Sentence

  1. Tyler Kistner:

    Congress needs to serve our children and future generations with schools that educate, not indoctrinate, and we also need to serve hard-working everyday Americans with an economy that grows while cost of living and gas prices don’t.

  2. Republican Ed Durr:

    The Senate President has spent 20 years in Trenton, higher taxes, increasing debt and rising cost of living -- we deserve better. New Jersey, New Jersey's time for a change. So together, let's end single-party rule.

  3. Doug Larson:

    What some people mistake for the high cost of living is really the cost of high living.

  4. Ryan Croft:

    We made a conscious decision to make the company bi-coastal, but eventually we consolidated and made one headquarters in DC. ... San Francisco gets all the headlines, but the high cost of living is spreading down the peninsula and through East Bay.

  5. Marco Rubio:

    We’re cutting back on supply because we don’t make things in America anymore. We need to bring back manufacturing to this country, and we need to start with energy – natural gas and oil, not only does that make America an easier place to manufacture, an attractive place to manufacture, it would lower the cost of living for millions of Americans almost immediately.


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