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Meaning of "standard of living" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF STANDARD OF LIVING

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF STANDARD OF LIVING

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Standard of living is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES STANDARD OF LIVING MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Standard of living

Standard of living refers to the level of wealth, comfort, material goods and necessities available to a certain socioeconomic class in a certain geographic area. The standard of living includes factors such as income, quality and availability of employment, class disparity, poverty rate, quality and affordability of housing, hours of work required to purchase necessities, gross domestic product, inflation rate, number of holiday days per year, affordable access to quality healthcare, quality and availability of education, life expectancy, incidence of disease, cost of goods and services, infrastructure, national economic growth, economic and political and stability, political and religious freedom, environmental quality, climate and safety. The standard of living is closely related to quality of life. In 2012, the Human Development Index ranked the top six countries for quality of living as: Norway, Australia, United States, Netherlands, Germany and New Zealand.

Definition of standard of living in the English dictionary

The definition of standard of living in the dictionary is a level of subsistence or material welfare of a community, class, or person.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE STANDARD OF LIVING

standard candle
standard cell
standard class
standard clause
standard cost
standard deviation
Standard English
standard error
standard function
standard gauge
standard generalized mark-up language
Standard Grade
standard housing benefit
standard issue
standard lamp
standard model
standard normal distribution
standard rose
standard scratch score
standard time

WORDS THAT END LIKE STANDARD OF LIVING

assisted living
caregiving
clean-living
cost of living
deceiving
diving
driving
drunk driving
forgiving
free-living
giving
leaving
living
reviving
scuba diving
skydiving
striving
surviving
thanksgiving
thriving
unforgiving

Synonyms and antonyms of standard of living in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «standard of living» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF STANDARD OF LIVING

Find out the translation of standard of living to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of standard of living from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «standard of living» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

生活标准
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

nivel de vida
570 millions of speakers

English

standard of living
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

जीवन स्तर
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

مُسْتَوَى الـمَعِيشَة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

уровень жизни
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

padrão de vida
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

জীবনযাত্রার মান
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

niveau de vie
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

taraf hidup
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Lebensstandard
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

生活水準
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

생활수준
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Standar urip
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

mức sống
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

வாழ்க்கை தரம்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

जीवनाचा दर्जा
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

yaşam standartı
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

tenore di vita
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

stopa życiowa
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

рівень життя
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

nivel de trai
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

βιοτικό επίπεδο
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

lewenstandaard
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

levnadsstandard
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

levestandard
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of standard of living

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «STANDARD OF LIVING»

The term «standard of living» is quite widely used and occupies the 38.331 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «STANDARD OF LIVING» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «standard of living» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «standard of living» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about standard of living

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10 QUOTES WITH «STANDARD OF LIVING»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word standard of living.
1
Gloria Macapagal Arroyo
I want ordinary people to enjoy a decent standard of living, with ever increasing security, comfort and joy.
2
Michael Badnarik
The Libertarian position on immigration is to have, not open borders with no restrictions, but to have controlled borders that allow hard-working people to come into America to help raise their standard of living and improve the American economy.
3
William Baldwin
A community is a group of people who have come together, and they work and they live to try and improve the standard of living and quality of life - and I don't mean money.
4
Mario Batali
Are we Darwinists - where we live and let live? Or are we nurturing as a society? There has to be a standard of living that we decide to support.
5
Norman Borlaug
The destiny of world civilization depends upon providing a decent standard of living for all mankind.
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Karen DeCrow
Education, doing homework, is the way to lift up girls. Around the world, where girls are educated, the economy and the standard of living rise.
7
Ernst Engel
The poorer is a family, the greater is the proportion of the total outgo which must be used for food... The proportion of the outgo used for food, other things being equal, is the best measure of the material standard of living of a population.
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Niall Ferguson
It's all very well for us to sit here in the West with our high incomes and cushy lives, and say it's immoral to violate the sovereignty of another state. But if the effect of that is to bring people in that country economic and political freedom, to raise their standard of living, to increase their life expectancy, then don't rule it out.
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Jane Goodall
We can't leave people in abject poverty, so we need to raise the standard of living for 80% of the world's people, while bringing it down considerably for the 20% who are destroying our natural resources.
10
Harriet Harman
It's hard to bring up your children on benefit. It's easier if you can do part- time work, or even full-time work, and actually have a better standard of living, and that's the direction in which we are going.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «STANDARD OF LIVING»

Discover the use of standard of living in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to standard of living and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Standard of Living: The Measure of the Middle Class in ...
Concluding with a look at zoning and urban planning as a means of fostering and protecting the standard of living for whole communities, this book offers important evidence of and fresh insights into the history of the American middle class ...
Marina Moskowitz, 2008
2
The Standard of Living
Amartya Sen argues that "the standard of living" has been poorly understood and narrowly defined; it is not just a function of opulence, and cannot be seen as utility.
Amartya Sen, Geoffrey Hawthorn, 1988
3
The Biological Standard of Living in Comparative ...
Inhalt: Part I: The Americas, Asia and Australia: Mit Beiträgen von: Stephen L. Morgan; Stephen Nicholas / Robert Gregory / Sue Kimberley; Henk-Jan Brinkman / J.W. Drukker; Ricardo Salvatore / Jörg Baten; Ricardo D. Salvatore; Insong Gill ...
John Komlos, Joerg Baten, 1998
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The Standard of Living and Revolutions in Imperial Russia, ...
This is the first full-scale anthropometric history of Imperial Russia (1700-1917).
Boris Mironov, Gregory Freeze, 2012
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Article 27: The Right to an Adequate Standard of Living
This volume constitutes a commentary on Article 27 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child.
Asbjørn Eide, 2006
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The Development Dictionary: A Guide to Knowledge as Power
When, on June 24, 1949. in his message to Congress on his Point Four Programme, President Truman announced the necessity 'to assist the people of economically underdeveloped areas to raise their standard of living',1 he emphasized an ...
Wolfgang Sachs, 1992
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The standard of living in its relation to economic theory ...
tive demand for all the land, and as there is competition among the landlords, the laborers are generally able to maintain their standard of living, against the landlords, above the point of mere subsistence. But whether the standard be high or ...
Frederic William Sanders, 1898
8
The Standard of Living in 1860 - American Consumption Levels ...
The Standard of Living in 1860. THE Standard of IN 1860 American Consumption Levels on the Eve of the Civil War by EDGAR W. MARTIN.
Edgar W. Martin, 2008
9
The Standard of Living in Japan
The activities adjusted to luxury should be excluded from what I shall define as the " efficient standard of living." But comfort is different from luxury. Comfort is always essential and important for efficiency because the satisfaction of the desire ...
Kōkichi Morimoto, 1918
10
The standard of living among one hundred negro migrant ...
extent the migrant families upon whose budgets the study is based were able to secure a fair standard of living. Since the families vary in size, we cannot compare their incomes until all the families have been placed on the same scale.
Sadie Tanner Mossell, 1921

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «STANDARD OF LIVING»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term standard of living is used in the context of the following news items.
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Canberra's standard of living plummets
The ACT's standard of living went backwards in the past year, according to new research by the University of Canberra. It was the only state or territory to go ... «The Canberra Times, Jul 15»
2
A Global Middle Class Is More Promise than Reality
Even those newly minted as middle class enjoy a standard of living that is modest by Western norms. As defined in this study, people who are middle income live ... «Pew Research Center's Global Attitudes Project, Jul 15»
3
Minimum wage falls far short of a decent standard of living, charity …
Single people on the national minimum wage (NMW) only earn 70 per cent of what the public believes is needed for a reasonable standard of living, according ... «CIPD, Jul 15»
4
Low-income families 'thousands of pounds short of basic standard of
The gap between incomes and the cost of a decent standard of living remained stable in 2014-15 after six successive years in which it widened. This was partly ... «The Guardian, Jul 15»
5
One in three Londoners 'can no longer afford a decent standard of
The research by Loughborough University also found that 43 per cent of couples with children had insufficient income for a decent standard of living. «Evening Standard, May 15»
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Working harder but it could be tougher for employees to increase …
AUSSIES could be facing a lower standard of living for the first time in 20 years ... “The outlook for Australian workers' living standards is dimmer than it has been ... «NEWS.com.au, Apr 15»
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Australians' standard of living improves
The standard of living index – which measures income increases minus cost of living increases – showed an improvement of 1.2% in the household budget ... «The Guardian, Mar 15»
8
Incomes below the living wage for two out of five families
Almost two out of five families with children are struggling on incomes below what is judged necessary for a socially acceptable standard of living – a huge jump ... «The Independent, Jan 15»
9
US Standard of Living Index Climbs to Highest in 7 Years
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Gallup's Standard of Living Index reached a new high of +50 in December, the best score found in seven years of tracking the index. «Gallup.com, Jan 15»
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AUSTRALIANS' standard of living is going backward for the first time since Bob Hawke was Prime Minister and MC Hammer had the number one song in the ... «NEWS.com.au, Nov 14»

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