Term: cost-of-living allowance: an allowance for changes in the consumer price index
Candidate hypernym: allowance: an amount added or deducted on the basis of qualifying circumstances → 1
Candidate hypernym: major depressive episode: (psychiatry) a state of depression with all the classic symptoms (anhedonia and lethargy and sleep disturbance and despondency and morbid thoughts and feelings of worthlessness and sometimes attempted suicide) but with no known organic dysfunction → 0
Candidate hypernym: genus hyaena: type genus of the Hyaenidae → 0
Candidate hypernym: brag: an instance of boastful talk → 0
Candidate hypernym: barn spider: an orange and tan spider with darkly banded legs that spins an orb web daily → 0
Candidate hypernym: exceedance: (geology) the probability that an earthquake will generate a level of ground motion that exceeds a specified reference level during a given exposure time → 0
Candidate hypernym: ground zero: the target of a projectile (as a bomb or missile) → 0
Candidate hypernym: whitebark pine: small pine of western North America; having smooth grey-white bark and soft brittle wood; similar to limber pine → 0
Candidate hypernym: lymphocyte: an agranulocytic leukocyte that normally makes up a quarter of the white blood cell count but increases in the presence of infection → 0
Candidate hypernym: list system: based on the principle of proportional representation; voters choose between party lists, the number elected from each list being determined by the percentage cast for each list out of the total vote → 0
Candidate hypernym: oxyacetylene: a mixture of oxygen and acetylene; used to create high temperatures for cutting or welding metals → 0