0 the result you get by adding two or more amounts together and dividing the total by the number of amounts:
1 a standard or level that is considered to be typical or usual:
The audience figures were lower than average for this sort of film.
In western Europe, a seven to eight-hour working day is about the average.
On average, people who don't smoke are healthier than people who do.
The quality of candidates was (well) below/above average.
I expect to spend an average of $50 to $60 on a meal in a restaurant.
2 to reach a particular amount as an average:
3 An average number is the number you get by adding two or more amounts together and dividing the total by the number of amounts:
5 a standard or level that is considered to be typical or usual:
6 the result obtained by adding two or more amounts together and dividing the total by the number of amounts, or by another total:
7 the result that you get by adding two or more amounts together and dividing this total by the number of amounts:
daily/monthly/quarterly average Trading was 297 million shares, down from the three-month daily average of 313 million shares.
The state's unemployment rate remained well below the national average of 5.7 percent.
an average of Its economy has grown at an annual average of 3.6% for the past seven years.
Regulators are careful to stress that the performance figures are only averages - some companies performed better.
8 a level or standard that is considered to be typical for a particular place, group of people, type of business, etc.:
above/below (the) average Our companies' profitability is above the sector average.
Most of these businesses match industry averages in job creation.
9 → partial loss
10 an average that is based on a particular group of companies' shares, which is used to represent changes in the stock market or to show which types of businesses are getting the most investors:
the industrial average
11 typically or usually:
12 used to describe an amount that you get by adding two or more amounts together and then dividing by the number of amounts:
14 not bad, but not excellent either:
Despite high expectations, sales levels last quarter were only average.
15 to equal a particular rate or amount as an average:
16 to calculate the average amount of something by adding all the amounts together and then dividing this by the number of amounts:
Each quarter, the magazine polls a group of forecasters and averages their predictions for economic growth.
Countywide, exam results have improved by an average of eight percent.
Rates of pay are above average.
The number of spectators at football matches was lower than average last season.
The number of soldiers killed this week is much higher than the weekly average.
On average, I earn about one and a half thousand pounds a month.
His marks in English have been below average for some time now.
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