cost-of-living allowance

1. 1.

   an allowance for changes in the consumer price index

   Broaderallowance

Questions about cost-of-living allowance

What does cost-of-living allowance mean?

cost-of-living allowance means "an allowance for changes in the consumer price index".

Is cost-of-living allowance a common word?

cost-of-living allowance is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.