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Meanings of cost-of-living index in English

Catalan
índex del cost de la vida

An index of the cost of all goods and services to a typical consumer.

        índex del cost de la vida
        Usage of cost-of-living index in English
        1
        You can buy iBonds directly from the U.S. Treasury, which have returns indexed to a cost-of-living index.
        Reuters
        2
        Secondly, there are break clauses; and thirdly, the mechanism for rent determination is linked directly to the cost-of-living index.
        The Irish Times
        3
        So much so that London, long at the top of the cost-of-living index, dropped 18 places in just a year.
        BBC
        4
        It makes already mortgage-stretched, two-career couples "creche-poor", creating an unacknowledged economic strain not reflected in the cost-of-living index.
        The Irish Times
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