living thing animate thing | a living (or once living) entity |
wage freeze | a freeze of wages at a given level |
housing lodging living accommodations | structures collectively in which people are housed |
living quarters quarters | housing available for people to live in, he found quarters for his family, I visited his bachelor quarters |
living room livingoom sitting room front room parlor parlour | a room in a private house or establishment where people can sit and talk and relax |
free living | a lifestyle given to easy indulgence of the appetites |
raise rise wage hike hike wage increase salary increase | the amount a salary is increased, he got a % raise, he got a wage hike |
protoplasm living substance | the substance of a living cell (including cytoplasm and nucleus) |
living arrangement | an arrangement to allow people (or ideas) to coexist |
life living | the experience of being alive, the course of human events and activities, he could no longer cope with the complexities of life |
living will | a document written by someone still legally capable requesting that he should be allowed to die if subsequently severely disabled or suffering terminal illness, after he discovered he had AIDS he drew up a living will |
consumer price index CPI cost-of-living index | an index of the cost of all goods and services to a typical consumer |
wage floor | floor below which wages are not allowed to fall |
wage claim pay claim | the wage demanded from management for workers by their union representatives |
wage concession | an agreement to raise wages |
living | people who are still living, save your pity for the living |
earner wage earner | someone who earn wages in return for their labor |
zombi zombie living dead | a dead body that has been brought back to life by a supernatural force |
lithops living stone stoneface stone-face stone plant stone life face flowering stone | any plant of the genus Lithops native to Africa having solitary yellow or white flowers and thick leaves that resemble stones |
living granite living rock stone mimicry plant | highly succulent stemless clump-forming plants with grey-green leaves similar in texture to lumps of granite, South Africa |
living rock Ariocarpus fissuratus | usually unbranched usually spineless cactus covered with warty tubercles and having magenta flowers and white or green fruit, resembles the related mescal, northeastern Mexico and southwestern United States |
cost-of-living allowance | an allowance for changes in the consumer price index |
wage pay earnings remuneration salary | something that remunerates, wages were paid by check, he wasted his pay on drink, they saved a quarter of all their earnings |
living wage | a wage sufficient for a worker and family to subsist comfortably |
minimum wage | the lowest wage that an employer is allowed to pay, determined by contract or by law |
cost-of-living benefit | a benefit that goes to anyone whose money receipts increase automatically as prices rise |
cost of living | average cost of basic necessities of life (as food and shelter and clothing), a rise in the cost of living reflects the rate of inflation |
living trust inter vivos trust | a trust created and operating during the grantor's lifetime |
support keep livelihood living bread and butter sustenance | the financial means whereby one lives, each child was expected to pay for their keep, he applied to the state for support, he could no longer earn his own livelihood |
living space lebensraum | space sought for occupation by a nation whose population is expanding |
wage scale wage schedule | a schedule of wages paid for different jobs |
standard of living standard of life | 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 |
animation life living aliveness | the condition of living or the state of being alive, while there's life there's hope, life depends on many chemical and physical processes |
living death | a state of constant misery |
wage setter | any economic condition or variable that serves to set wage rates |
engage wage | carry on (wars, battles, or campaigns), Napoleon and Hitler waged war against all of Europe |
living | (informal) absolute, she is a living doll, scared the living daylights out of them, beat the living hell out of him |
living(a) | (used of minerals or stone) in its natural state and place, not mined or quarried, carved into the living stone, |
inanimate nonliving non-living | not endowed with life, the inorganic world is inanimate, inanimate objects |
arboreal arboreous tree-living | inhabiting or frequenting trees, arboreal apes |
propertyless wage-earning working-class blue-collar | of those who work for wages especially manual or industrial laborers, party of the propertyless proletariat- G.B.Shaw |
free-living nonparasitic nonsymbiotic | not parasitic on another organism |
living | still in active use, a living language |
surviving living | still in existence, the Wollemi pine found in Australia is a surviving specimen of a conifer thought to have been long extinct and therefore known as a living fossil, the only surviving frontier blockhouse in Pennsylvania |
clean clean-living | morally pure, led a clean life |
living | true to life, lifelike, the living image of her mother |
wage-earning working-clas | working for hourly wages rather than fixed (e.g. annual) salaries, working-class occupations include manual as well as industrial labor |
living | pertaining to living persons, within living memory |