Living wage

Definition

living / 'lÇvÇŋ / adj ၁။ အသက္ရိွေသာ။ အသက္ရွင္လ်က္ ရိွေသာ။ all living things ❍ the finest living pianist ❍ No man living could have done better. ၂။ အသံုးျပဳဆဲျဖစ္ေသာ။ က်င့္သံုးဆဲ၊ တည္ရိွဆဲျဖစ္ေသာ။ ရွင္သန္လ်က္ရိွေသာ။ living languages (ie those still spoken) ❍ a living hope / faith / reality. n ၁။ [C usu sing ] (က) အသက္ေမြးမႈ။ ပရိေယသန။ ဝမ္းစာ။ earn one’s living as a journalist / from writing ❍ scrape a living from part-time tutoring ❍ make a good / an adequate / a meagre living ❍ What do you do for a living? ၂။ [U] ေနထိုင္စားေသာက္ပံု။ လူေနမႈ။ plain/ healthy living ❍ Their standard of living is very low. ❍ The cost of living seems to go up every day. ၃။ [C] ( Brit ) ခရစ္ယာန္ဘုန္းေတာ္ႀကီးအတြက္ အသင္း ေတာ္နယ္ပယ္မွ ရရိွသည့္ စားပိုင္ခြင့္ႏွင့္ရာထူး။ ❏ be living proof of sth / that … [ IDM ] မားမားမတ္မတ္ သက္ေသအေထာက္အထား။ He is living proof that engineers are not boring. ❍ These figures are living proof of their incompetence. ❏ the living n [pl v ] အသက္ရွင္ဆဲရိွသူမ်ား။ the living and the dead. ❏ living death n [sing] ေသသည္ထက္ဆိုးဝါးေသာ ဘဝ။ ❏ living-room (also esp Brit sitting-room ) n ဧည့္ခန္း။ Compare DRAWING-ROOM ❏ living wage n [sing] လူတန္းေစ့ေနထိုင္ရန္ လိုအပ္ေသာ အနည္းဆံုးလုပ္ခ၊ လခ။ ❏ within/in living memory [ IDM ] သိမီသူမ်ား မွတ္မိ ေလာက္သည့္ ကာလ အေတာအတြင္း။ မွတ္မိသေရြ႕။ the coldest winter in living memory.

Examples

1. He has no living relatives.
2. She’s arguably the sexiest living film star.
3. Their religion is based on a respect for all living things.
4. Living conditions for the troops are relatively comfortable.