Definition of Standard of living

1. Noun. A level of material comfort in terms of goods and services available to someone or some group. "The lower the standard of living the easier it is to introduce an autocratic production system"

Exact synonyms: Standard Of Life
Generic synonyms: Degree, Level, Point, Stage

Definition of Standard of living

1. Noun. A relative measure of the quality of life of a person or group has. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Standard Of Living

standard fare
standard gauge
standard generalized markup language
standard hydrogen electrode
standard hydrogen electrodes
standard lamp
standard lamps
standard language
standard languages
standard limb lead
standard normal distribution
standard normal distributions
standard of care
standard of identity
standard of life
standard of living (current term)
standard of measurement
standard operating procedure
standard poodle
standard poodles
standard pressure
standard procedure
standard ruler
standard rulers
standard schnauzer
standard score
standard solution
standard state
standard substance
standard temperature

Literary usage of Standard of living

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Social Welfare Forum: Official Proceedings ... Annual Forum by National Conference on Social Welfare, American Social Science Association, Conference of Charities (U.S., Conference of Charities (U.S.), National Conference of Social Work (U.S. (1920)
"WHAT IS THE AMERICAN standard of living? Royal Meeker, US Commissioner of Labor Statistics, Washington Reference is constantly made in the press and in ..."

2. Principles of Economics by Frank William Taussig (1915)
"An established standard of living will cause workmen to stick more stubbornly to a demand for what they regard as decent wages. Within the debatable ground ..."

3. Principles of Economics by Frank William Taussig (1915)
"An established standard of living will cause workmen to stick more stubbornly to a demand for what they regard as decent wages. Within the debatable ground ..."

4. Immigration and Labor: The Economic Aspects of European Immigration to the by Isaac Aaronovich Hourwich (1912)
"As to all others, it was just the higher standard of living 'of the American ... If the lower standard of living to which the immigrant has "been accustomed ..."

5. Immigration and Labor: The Economic Aspects of European Immigration to the by Isaac Aaronovich Hourwich (1922)
"As to all others, it was just the higher standard of living rof the American wage-earner ... If the lower standard of living to which the immigrant has been ..."

6. Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature by H.W. Wilson Company (1909)
"standard of living among workingmen's families in New York city, by RC Charin. ... Sec also standard of living. Cost of power. See Power cost. Died. ..."

7. The Italian Contribution to American Democracy by John Horace Mariano (1921)
"The real standard of living is a certain conception of economic life which ... Chapin, RC "The Standard of Living Among Working- men's Families in New York ..."

8. The Immigration Problem: A Study of American Immigration Conditions and Needs by Jeremiah Whipple Jenks, William Jett Lauck, Rufus Daniel Smith (1922)
"Edward A. Brown, Chief Sanitary Engineer for the State Commission of Immigration and Housing of California, states: "The Hindu standard of living is so ..."

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