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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"
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
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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