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Noun: cost-of-living adjustment
  1. An allowance for changes in the consumer price index
    "Workers received a cost-of-living adjustment to match inflation";
    - cost-of-living allowance, COLA

Derived forms: cost-of-living adjustments

Type of: adjustment, allowance

Encyclopedia: Cost-of-living adjustment