1 the amount of money that a person needs to buy food, housing, and other basic things:
2 the amount of money that people need to spend in order to buy basic goods or services such as food, clothes, and a place to live:
Salaries and stipends must be pegged to the actual cost of living with automatic raises to compensate for inflation.
The main reason is due to the slight decline in the rural wage rate and in the cost of living.
They will admit the high cost of living, but propose a slimming of distribution margins as the solution.
It had a direct adverse impact on the cost of living and an indirect one on the prices of other commodities.
The cost of living is increased when a child is added to a family.
Opponents of protection emphasized that tariffs would increase the cost of living for the working class who had voted, and would again vote, against protection.
They tended to agree, citing the cost of living and the difficulties of obtaining adequate housing.
And to compound matters, the cost of living is high.
