cost-of-living adjustment (cola) cost
1Cost Of Living Adjustment - COLA — An adjustment made to Social Security and supplemental security income in order to adjust benefits to counteract the effects of inflation. COLAs are generally equal to the percentage increase in the consumer price index for urban wage earners and …
2cost of living adjustment — ➔ adjustment * * * cost of living adjustment UK US noun [C] (ABBREVIATION COLA) ► 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… …
3COLA — [ˈkəʊlə ǁ ˈkoʊlə] abbreviation for cost of living adjustment * * * COLA UK US noun [C] ► ABBREVIATION for COST OF LIVING ADJUSTMENT(Cf. ↑cost of living adjustment) …
4Cost of living — For other uses, see The Cost of Living (disambiguation). Cost of living is the cost of maintaining a certain standard of living. Changes in the cost of living over time are often operationalized in a cost of living index. Cost of living… …
5adjustment — ad‧just‧ment [əˈdʒʌstmənt] noun [countable, uncountable] 1. a change that is made to something in order to correct or improve it: • We have made an adjustment to our target. • Grants are to be slashed by 33%, after adjustment for inflation. ˌcost …
6COLA — / kō lə/ abbr 1 cost of living adjustment 2 cost of living allowance Merriam Webster’s Dictionary of Law. Merriam Webster. 1996 …
7cost-of-livingadjustment — cost of living adjustment n. Abbr. COLA An adjustment made in wages that corresponds with a change in the cost of living. * * * …
8Cola (disambiguation) — Cola is a type of soft drink. Colamay also refer to: Cola (programming language) COLA (software architecture) Cost of living adjustment Collision avoidance (spacecraft) Cola Petruccioli (1360–1401), Italian painter Cola di Rienzo (c. 1313–1354),… …
9COLA — Cost of Living Adjustment (Business » Accounting) *** Cost Of Living Allowance (Governmental » US Government) ** City Of Los Angeles (Governmental » State & Local) * Center for Ocean Land Atmosphere Studies (Academic & Science » Ocean Science) *… …
10COLA — Cost of Living Adjustment. See cost of living clause …
