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What is another word for the cost of living?

Pronunciation: [ðə kˈɒst ɒv lˈɪvɪŋ] (IPA)

The phrase "the cost of living" can be replaced with several synonyms, such as "the price of existence," "the expense of being alive," "the cost of survival," or "the expenditure of living." These alternatives emphasize the financial burden associated with sustaining oneself, encompassing all the bills, purchases, and other expenses necessary for daily life. They elucidate the notion of the constant effort that must be exerted for survival, implying that living is a challenge to be met with financial preparedness and strategic planning. Alternatives to "the cost of living" broaden the concept of financial responsibility and further emphasize its importance in modern society.
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  • I like the evening in India, the one magic moment when the sun balances on the rim of the world, and the hush descends, and ten thousand civil servants drift homeward on a river of bicycles, brooding on the Lord Krishna and the cost of living.
    James Cameron
  • My own experience in the third world was that even if people started to make more money, the cost of living and housing increased often faster than the wages.
    David Korten
  • And so we said to General Motors that the solution had to be a first year increase, which had to be sizeable because we bad to catch up with the lost position as against the cost of living and we had to make some progress.
    Leonard Woodcock
  • Now, wages in the automobile industry are made up of two components, what we call base rates and the cost of living factor which is fed in by the operation of the escalator.
    Leonard Woodcock
  • Well, first of all the Dominion Bureau of Statistics made a survey in the spring of 1970, which showed that on balance the difference in the cost of living between Canadian cities and American cities was 5 % to the advantage, of course, to the Canadian cities.
    Leonard Woodcock

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