COST-OF-LIVING ALLOWANCE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cost-of-living allowance mean? 

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

1. an allowance for changes in the consumer price index

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• COST-OF-LIVING ALLOWANCE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An allowance for changes in the consumer price index

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

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

adjustment; allowance (an amount added or deducted on the basis of qualifying circumstances)