standard of living

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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.

Also called living standard.

Origin:
1900–05

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World English Dictionary

standard of living

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

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Cultural Dictionary

standard of living definition

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

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Example sentences

The rise in the material standard of living seems to be inseparably linked to

increased energy usage.

The real question is the standard of living of people at every income level and

whether the basic needs of the poor are being met.

Most of us living in the developed world enjoy an unprecedentedly high standard

of living.

The new plant will generate a better economy and eventually a higher standard

of living in the area.

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"In the small town each citizen had done something in his own way to build the community. The town booster had a vision of the future which he tried to fulfill. The suburb dweller by contrast started with the future—with a shopping center for twice the population, with a school building already built, with churches constructed, with parks and playgrounds and swimming pools. These were as essential to building a suburb as the prematurely grand hotel had been to building a city in the wilderness. In large developments where the developer had a plan, and even in the smaller developments, there was a new kind of paternalism: not the quasi-feudal paternalism of the company town, nor the paternalism of the utopian ideologue. This new kind of paternalism was fostered by the American talent for organization, by the rising twentieth century American standard of living, and by the American genius for mass production. It was the paternalism of the market place. The suburban developer, unlike the small-town booster, seldom intended to live in the community he was building. For him community was a commodity, a product to be sold at a profit."

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