standard of living
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- noun
- /ˈstændərd əv ˈlɪvɪŋ/
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nivel de vida
- As the economy grows, the standard of living for families typically improves, allowing them to access better goods and services.
- improved standard of living
- raise the standard of living
- high standard of living
But because it was California, your standard of living was so much higher.
- But because it was California, your standard of living was so much higher.
- I think that for most Americans, their standard of living is declining.
- The beaches, the beach, restaurants and yeah, the standard of living there is incredible.
- The reality is, if you'll take care of the quality of life, the standard of living is going to go up.
- We need robots to help us continue to improve our standard of living.
- But we still had incredible growth in prosperity, in wages and standard of living.
- I think this is all good stuff that is going to increase the standard of living of humanity over time.
- It raises our standard of living, which is going to raise even those flawed test scores.
- And those are there, those are very tricky because the standard of living of a couple becomes important in a divorce.
- Now we face the question whether a still higher standard of living is worth its cost in things natural, wild, and free.
- And so if we if we turn private sector investment to government spending, we are going to have a lower standard of living.
- The reason is if you look across rich countries, they make different choices with the same available technology, the same rough standards of living.
- But that just means that in the future, it's, you know, our standard of living is is going to come way down when this bubble bursts and we can't live beyond our means anymore.
- But on the other hand, in a society where the pie is growing faster, standards of living of the poor will increase more rapidly.
- But the notion that the the mass enjoyment of a rising standard of living is somehow built into capitalism is factually nuts.
- You know, a lot of it has to do with standard of living, unemployment, economy.
- I, I'm owed a certain, you know, standard of living by the, the way things are set up.
- I've couldn't, you know, hold up my, my current standard of living and stuff now.
- So I am like have to do more just to keep my standard of living.
Examples
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Improved transportation, cheaper modes of communication, and a higher standard of living permitted spending time and money on leisure.
Academic text (1991) -
One reason for this shift was perhaps the changes to the standard of living.
Academic text (2008) -
But because it was California, your standard of living was so much higher.
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Human, human race today, it's the largest population and the highest standard of living by far than it has ever had in human history.
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I think this is all good stuff that is going to increase the standard of living of humanity over time.
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People in alternate America have the highest standard of living of anywhere in the world.
Blog text (1) -
I think that for most Americans, their standard of living is declining.
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Subsequent reports will look more closely at other issues, such as changing standards of living, climate change, and land usage.
Academic text (2012) -
With this restricted economic freedom, many Chinese people dramatically improved their standard of living.
Academic text (1992) -
Iceland is a stable democracy with a high standard of living, and, until recently, extremely low unemployment and government debt.
Synonyms
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The amount of money, goods, and services people have for daily life
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Level of comfort and things people have, like housing and healthcare
Antonyms
How Comfortable
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- Formal
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly derivable from its parts: 'standard' = level/benchmark and 'living' = daily life or way of life, so 'standard of living' naturally means the level/quality of people's material life. This is a common compositional pattern (compare French 'niveau de vie', Spanish 'nivel de vida'), so an average B1 learner who knows the constituents would understand it.
Etymology
Standard of living comes from the idea of a fixed standard, a simple rule or mark used to measure how people are living. So it came to mean the 'level' of comfort, wealth, and access to services people have.