0 not different or special or unexpected in any way; usual: --
For the police, the incident was nothing out of the ordinary/did not seem out of the ordinary.
If we hadn't seen the TV programme, we would have carried on giving money to the charity in the ordinary way.
Her last concert appearance in Britain was no ordinary (= a very special) performance.
Readers of the magazine said they wanted more stories about ordinary people and fewer stories about the rich and famous.
an ordinary neighbourhood
1 not different, special, or unexpected in any way; usual: --
In the eyes of ordinary folk, the crusade was a holy war for the sake of war.
The ordinary stuff of realism at its most immediate seldom needs elaboration, since it is something the novelist shares with his reader.
When these result in avoidable death, and they do, then it could be anyone who just happens to be there- employees, consumers, ordinary citizens.
Look around you and everywhere you will find ordinary persons going about their everyday business performing familiar, unremarkable activities.
In addition, choice theories complete their concept of voluntariness by positing a concept of the ordinary market.
The jokes could be played out in a fully contemporary setting and could often concern the adventures of very ordinary downtrodden men.
We are directly presented with them in our ordinary experience, and so must start with them in any investigation into hidden and unknown causes.
Such investments demanded the participation in wage labour of both men and women: two 'breadwinners' in an ordinary family.