COST OF LIVING

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Example:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

Hypernyms ("cost of living" is a kind of...):

cost (the total spent for goods or services including money and time and labor)

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