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Standard of living   /stˈændərd əv lˈɪvɪŋ/   Listen
Standard of living

noun
1.
A level of material comfort in terms of goods and services available to someone or some group.  Synonym: standard of life.  "The lower the standard of living the easier it is to introduce an autocratic production system"






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"Standard of living" Quotes from Famous Books



... years ago, at the close of the second great war, China was a veritable Eldorado for Europeans, where all turned to gold beneath the lightest touch of alien hands. Fortunes were made with startling rapidity, and money came in so freely that the standard of living amongst foreign merchants and their employes reached to such preposterous heights of luxuriousness, that when the inevitable reaction set in, want, and even ruin, supervened where plenty should ...
— Life and sport in China - Second Edition • Oliver G. Ready

... of laborers may be traced to the want of a strict economy! The prosperity of this country has produced a wastefulness that has extended to the laboring multitude. A man, here, turns with scorn from fare that in many countries would be termed luxurious. It is, indeed, important that the standard of living in all classes should be high; that is, it should include the comforts of life, the means of neatness and order in our dwellings, and such supplies of our wants as are fitted to secure vigorous health. But how many waste their earnings on indulgences which may be spared, ...
— Harvard Classics Volume 28 - Essays English and American • Various

... obliged him to maintain a high standard of living, to his great financial detriment, for Canadian prices were inordinate. "I must live creditably, and so I do; sixteen persons at table every day. Once a fortnight I dine with the Governor-General and with the Chevalier de Levis, who lives well too. ...
— Montcalm and Wolfe • Francis Parkman

... Keir Hardie was in India he satisfied himself that the standard of living among the working classes in India has been deteriorating. This is interesting psychologically, and one would like to know by what means Mr. Keir Hardie attained to satisfaction on such a great and important question. Doubtless ...
— Concerning Animals and Other Matters • E.H. Aitken, (AKA Edward Hamilton)

... job is clearly established a further complication confronts us. All the time-study in the world cannot show how much ought to be paid for a job. It can only show at most the length of time a job ought to take. That is to say, it cannot determine what is to be the standard of living or of remuneration of the workers.... This, indeed, is only another way of saying that Scientific Management has only devised a further method of payment ...
— The Settlement of Wage Disputes • Herbert Feis


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