cost
Webster Dictionary
to require to be given, expended, or laid out therefor, as in barter, purchase, acquisition, etc.; to cause the cost, expenditure, relinquishment, or loss of; as, the ticket cost a dollar; the effort cost his life
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cli
(klu)
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
cost-of-living index.
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indexation
(ˌɪn dɛkˈseɪ ʃən)
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
the adjustment of wages, interest rates, etc., according to changes in the cost of living.
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personal expense
(personal expense)
Princeton's WordNet
the cost of personal or family living
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sliding scale
(sliding scale)
Princeton's WordNet
a wage scale that fluctuates in response to the cost-of-living index
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cola
(ˈkoʊ lə)
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
an automatic adjustment in wages or social-security payments to offset fluctuations in the cost of living.
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sliding scale
(ˈslaɪ dər)
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
a wage scale that varies with the selling price of goods produced, the cost of living, or profits.
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escalator clause
(ˈɛs kəˌleɪ tər)
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
a provision in a contract calling for adjustments, usu. increases, in charges, wages, or other payments, based on fluctuations in production costs, the cost of living, or other variables.
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indexation
(indexation)
Princeton's WordNet
a system of economic regulation: wages and interest are tied to the cost-of-living index in order to reduce the effects of inflation
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escalator clause
(escalator clause, escalator)
Princeton's WordNet
a clause in a contract that provides for an increase or a decrease in wages or prices or benefits etc. depending on certain conditions (as a change in the cost of living index)
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escalator
(escalator clause, escalator)
Princeton's WordNet
a clause in a contract that provides for an increase or a decrease in wages or prices or benefits etc. depending on certain conditions (as a change in the cost of living index)
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marketing cost
(marketing cost)
Princeton's WordNet
the cost of marketing (e.g., the cost of transferring title and moving goods to the customer)
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handling charge
(handling cost, handling charge)
Princeton's WordNet
the cost of handling (especially the cost of packaging and mailing an order)
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handling cost
(handling cost, handling charge)
Princeton's WordNet
the cost of handling (especially the cost of packaging and mailing an order)
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notch baby
(ɒtʃ)
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
a person who was born in the U.S. between 1917 and 1921 and as a retiree received lower cost-of-living increases in Social Security than others after Congress readjusted Social Security benefits in 1977.
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living
Webster Dictionary
manner of life; as, riotous living; penurious living; earnest living
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consumer price index
(ənˈsu məˌrɪz əm)
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
an index of the change in the cost of common goods and services paid by a typical consumer, expressed as the percentage change in the total cost of these same items over a previous base period.
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biology
Webster Dictionary
the science of life; that branch of knowledge which treats of living matter as distinct from matter which is not living; the study of living tissue. It has to do with the origin, structure, development, function, and distribution of animals and plants
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parasitical
Webster Dictionary
of or pertaining to parasites; living on, or deriving nourishment from, some other living animal or plant. See Parasite, 2 & 3
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quick
Webster Dictionary
that which is quick, or alive; a living animal or plant; especially, the hawthorn, or other plants used in making a living hedge
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palilogy
Webster Dictionary
the repetition of a word, or part of a sentence, for the sake of greater emphasis; as, "The living, the living, he shall praise thee."
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laving
Webster Dictionary
active; lively; vigorous; -- said esp. of states of the mind, and sometimes of abstract things; as, a living faith; a living principle
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bioplast
Webster Dictionary
a tiny mass of bioplasm, in itself a living unit and having formative power, as a living white blood corpuscle; bioblast
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biogeny
Webster Dictionary
a doctrine that the genesis or production of living organisms can take place only through the agency of living germs or parents; -- opposed to abiogenesis
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transformism
Webster Dictionary
the hypothesis, or doctrine, that living beings have originated by the modification of some other previously existing forms of living matter; -- opposed to abiogenesis
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living
Webster Dictionary
power of continuing life; the act of living, or living comfortably
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archebiosis
Webster Dictionary
the origination of living matter from non-living. See Abiogenesis
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abiogenesis
Webster Dictionary
the supposed origination of living organisms from lifeless matter; such genesis as does not involve the action of living parents; spontaneous generation; -- called also abiogeny, and opposed to biogenesis
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cost
Webster Dictionary
of Cost
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costing
Webster Dictionary
of Cost
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