Antonyms for living standardsliving stan·dards

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Princeton's WordNet

1. standard of living, living standards, standard of lifenoun

   a level of material comfort in terms of goods and services available to someone or some group

   "they enjoyed the highest standard of living in the country"; "the lower the standard of living the easier it is to introduce an autocratic production system"

How to use living standards in a sentence?

1. Kim Eun-ju:

   North Korea's living standards depend on women's business abilities and skills, not on the state. Women are replacing the role of the state via the market economy, now men are even looking for potential wives in marketplaces.

2. Keith Jefferis:

   There are many examples of countries that have had the good luck and then made a complete mess of it. Botswana has avoided that, and it has been translated into a general increase in living standards, particularly in the fast expansion in the provision of public services.

3. Oscar Auliq-Ice:

   Sustained growth is required, particularly in the poorest regions, to catch up with decent living standards and to live a life of dignity, opportunity and hope.

4. Maria Lipman:

   To think that living standards go down and people, what, revolt? It's too simplistic, that would follow the logic of 'it's the economy, stupid.' But it's not just the economy, stupid.

5. Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn:

   Socialism carried out in a democratic way in this country, in Scandinavia and other places has raised the living standards of the very poorest.

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