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noun

a grade or level of subsistence and comfort in everyday life enjoyed by a community, class, or individual: The well-educated generally have a high standard of living.

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Also called living standard.

Origin of standard of living

First recorded in 1900–05

Words nearby standard of living

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How to use standard of living in a sentence

Patrick Klugman, the deputy mayor of Paris, said: “We are living our kind of 9/11,” he said.
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Using standard methods, the cost of printing DNA could run upwards of a billion dollars or more, depending on the strand.
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The same Pediatrics journal notes that 17 states have some form of exception to the standard parental consent requirement.
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Christopher Nolan, Interstellar “My films are always held to a weirdly high standard,” Nolan told me.
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Last week I turned 40, a bittersweet occasion because I crossed the line to living longer without my mother than with her.
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And it would be hard indeed, if so remote a prince's notions of virtue and vice were to be offered as a standard for all mankind.
Gulliver's Travels|Jonathan Swift
To be so humbled in the knowledge of any living being, was the vultures of Prometheus to the proud heart of Ripperda.
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The living (value £250) is in the gift of trustees, and is now held by the Rev. M. Parker, Vicar.
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The new creed, called the King's Book, approved by the houses of convocation, and made the standard of English orthodoxy.
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So far as their thought is still alive these men will come into the discussion of living questions now.
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British Dictionary definitions for standard of living

standard of living

noun

a level of subsistence or material welfare of a community, class, or person

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Cultural definitions for standard of living

standard of living

A term describing the amount of goods and services that an average family or individual views as necessary.