生活費|せいかつひseikatsuhi

1. nounliving expenses
   インフレで給料きゅうりょうが高たかい生活費せいかつひに追おいつかない。↗

   Because of inflation, salaries can't keep up with the high cost of living.

• Synonym生計費せいけいひWrittenA statistics and economics term for the money needed to maintain a livelihood; more formal than 「生活費」.
• Related米塩の資べいえんのしWrittenAn idiom for money just to get by on; written and archaic in flavor, not used in everyday speech.

Everyday speech uses 「生活費」, as in 「生活費を稼ぐ」; 「生計費」 is the term in economic statistics, while 「米塩の資」 is a literary idiom not used in daily life.

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1. 生活せいかつしていく上うえで必要ひつような費用ひよう。