Meanings of cost-of-living index in English

You can buy iBonds directly from the U.S. Treasury, which have returns indexed to a cost-of-living index.

Secondly, there are break clauses; and thirdly, the mechanism for rent determination is linked directly to the cost-of-living index.

So much so that London, long at the top of the cost-of-living index, dropped 18 places in just a year.

It makes already mortgage-stretched, two-career couples "creche-poor", creating an unacknowledged economic strain not reflected in the cost-of-living index.