COST OF LIVING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cost of living mean? 

• COST OF LIVING (noun)
  The noun COST OF LIVING has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: COST OF LIVING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COST OF LIVING (noun)

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Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

Context example:

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

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

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