词汇 | cost-of-living-adjustment |
释义 | cost of living adjustment noun[ C ] ukus(abbreviationCOLA) ECONOMICS, HR an increase in a person's wages, pension, etc. that is made once a year according to how much the prices of things such as food, transport, and housing have increased: Because of falling consumer prices, the government recently announced that there will be no cost of living adjustment (COLA) for Social Security recipients this year. Examples of cost of living adjustmentcost of living adjustment For instance, the centre financed the 1997/8 salary increment (costoflivingadjustment) of civil servants throughout the country, for which the regions were formally responsible. The first step could be to remove the automatic costoflivingadjustment. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English In other words, is it purely a costoflivingadjustment, or has there been an additional exclusion? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We have this year been able to go beyond a simple costoflivingadjustment, both in the levels of grant and in the parental contribution scales. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We have already recommended an acceleration of the costoflivingadjustment on pay and existing pensions and a similar adjustment should be made on future pensions. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 During the period from 1951 to 1954 various agreements were made over wage increases, cost of living adjustments and rules changes. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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