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COLA

nounproper nounattested in dialogue

comp.os.linux.advocacy (a Usenet newsgroup promoting the Linux operating system)

noun

  1. 1

    Variant of cost of living adjustmentAcronym of cost of living adjustment.

Etymology

Acronym

proper noun

  1. 1

    comp.os.linux.advocacy (a Usenet newsgroup promoting the Linux operating system)

Forms

plural
COLAs
The neighbouring pages — Alphabetical order follows the rules of the language, not byte values: an accent decides only between two otherwise identical words, and Spanish files Ñ as a letter of its own.

Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).