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Definition of living standard in English: living standardnoun frequently as plural noun living standardsThe quality of housing, material comfort, and wealth experienced by an individual or group. a decline in basic living standards Example sentencesExamples - For the past 15 years Spain has seen spectacular growth, dramatically improving living standards, and a housing boom that brought new wealth and hundreds of thousands of jobs.
- We need a national "living wage"—a required minimum floor that provides a basic living standard for all workers.
- We face major challenges in trying to put life into empty promises to reverse the ecological degradation and falling living standards that afflict much of the world.
- Improvements in living standards have reduced the mortality from infectious diseases.
- We have seen policy that didn't work for the people whose jobs, living standards, and communities were affected.
- The gap between living standards in Australia and New Zealand is growing wider as each day goes by.
- He plans to bring together top-level administration policy makers to draw up plans to raise living standards for families.
- He has called for the rehabilitation of the irrigation furrow to improve people's living standards.
- The new initiative sought to raise the living standards of the poorest residents.
- This is a real decline in living standards, manifested as a real increase in the number of people who are cold, sick, and hungry.
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