cost-of-living index

Questions about cost-of-living index

What is another word for cost-of-living index?

It depends which cost-of-living index you mean. In the sense “an index of the cost of all goods and services to a typical consumer”, the synonyms are consumer price index, CPI. Across all 1 sense there are 2 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of cost-of-living index?

WordNet records no antonym for cost-of-living index. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for cost-of-living index come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of cost-of-living index

• Full entry for cost-of-living indexAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for cost-of-living indexWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
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