living standards
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3.1
- noun
- /ˈlɪvɪŋ ˈstændərdz/
:
nivel de vida
- Indeed, virtually all OPEC member states need money urgently to maintain living standards.
- improve living standards
- improvement in living standards
- raise living standards
Poverty, lack of basic living standards, violence, government corruption and crime.
- Poverty, lack of basic living standards, violence, government corruption and crime.
- My firm belief is that if you don't tax rich people, living standards collapse for ordinary people.
- So it made sense to protect people, you know, where you don't want your living standards to go way, way down because of COVID.
- Surely living standards being high should give people less to complain about, not more.
- It works as long as people get a better living standards.
- And yet there are billions of people in the world who have terrible living standards and they do not decapitate their neighbours.
- Prices have consistently risen more than wages, which means even as inflation has fallen, living standards have have continued to decrease.
- China has been transformed out of all recognition in terms of not all of the living standards of the country, but but many places.
- But we know what it means to basically have more than enough energy to fund our own domestic manufacturing and living standards.
Examples
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OK, that is rising inequality, but it's also significant increases in living standards for all Americans.
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The substantial improvement of living standards during the last four decades certainly reflected this growth.
Academic text (1994) -
In this way, the stock market has contributed much to higher living standards over our nation's history.
Academic text (1992) -
This is about our jobs, living standards and future prosperity.
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As a country increases its ability to produce, living standards increase; that is, more goods and services are available for consumption.
Academic text (2012) -
Israel could have taken the high road and improved living standards there, but they didn't.
Blog text (20) -
My firm belief is that if you don't tax rich people, living standards collapse for ordinary people.
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Like most of his contemporaries, he believed technological advances would raise living standards for everyone.
Academic text (2012) -
The government's surveys on household budgets confirm the dramatic decline in living standards.
Academic text (2008) -
Unions helped to raise the living standards for everyone, not just union members.
Synonyms
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3.2
How much money, comfort, and services people in a country have
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3.3
Level of comfort and things people have, like housing and healthcare
Antonyms
How Comfortable
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase 'living standards' is compositionally built from 'living' (relating to livelihood or the quality of life) modifying 'standards' (levels or benchmarks), so the meaning — the level of material comfort or wealth — is directly inferable from the constituents. This is a common, cross-linguistic noun-modifier construction following regular English compounding patterns, so a B1 learner who knows both words should understand it.
Etymology
Living standards comes from the simple idea of measuring how people live: imagine a ruler or a row of houses at different heights, where living means daily life and standards are the marks that show levels. That's why it means 'how comfortable or wealthy people are'.