| 单词 | cost of living adjustment |
| 释义 | cost of living adjustment noun[C] ukus(abbreviationCOLA)ECONOMICS,HR anincreasein a person'swages,pension, etc. that is madeonceayearaccordingto how much thepricesof things such asfood,transport, andhousinghaveincreased: Because offallingconsumerprices, thegovernmentrecentlyannouncedthat there will be nocostoflivingadjustment(COLA) forSocialSecurityrecipientsthisyear. Examplesofcost of living adjustmentcost of living adjustment For instance, the centre financed the 1997/8 salary increment (costoflivingadjustment) of civil servants throughout the country, for which the regions were formally responsible. From theCambridge English Corpus The first step could be to remove the automaticcostoflivingadjustment. FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - English In other words, is it purely acostoflivingadjustment, or has there been an additional exclusion? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 We have this year been able to go beyond a simplecostoflivingadjustment, both in the levels of grant and in the parental contribution scales. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 We have already recommended an acceleration of thecostoflivingadjustmenton pay and existing pensions and a similar adjustment should be made on future pensions. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 During the period from 1951 to 1954 various agreements were made over wage increases, cost of living adjustments and rules changes. From Wikipedia  This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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