average betydelse and definition

Betydelse av average på svenska

• 0 the result you get by adding two or more amounts together and dividing the total by the number of amounts:

  • The average of the three numbers 7, 12, and 20 is 13, because the total of 7, 12, and 20 is 39, and 39 divided by 3 is 13.

  • Prices have risen by an average of four percent over the past year.

  • My income's rather variable, but I earn £175 a day on average.

• 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:

  • Enquiries to our office average 1,000 calls a month.

  • Many doctors average (= work an average of) 70 hours a week.

  • Trainee accountants average (= earn an average of) £32,000 per year.

• 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:

  • average earnings/income/rainfall

  • The average age of the US soldiers who fought in the Vietnam War was 19.

• 4 typical and usual:

  • The average person on the street is a lot better off than they were 40 years ago.

  • a student of average ability

  • The food was fairly average (= not excellent, although not bad).

• 5 a standard or level that is considered to be typical or usual:

  • The quality of her work is well above average.

• 6 the result obtained by adding two or more amounts together and dividing the total by the number of amounts, or by another total:

  • I’m 35 and my brothers are 32 and 26, so the average of our ages is 31.

  • In his third season on the team, he raised his batting average to .270.

  • Interest rates rose on average to 10.05% in January.

• 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:

  • On average, only about half of the consumers who qualify for a rebate actually collect it.

• 12 used to describe an amount that you get by adding two or more amounts together and then dividing by the number of amounts:

  • average price/cost/value Price rises were strong in Wales, where the average cost of a property jumped by 31.8%.

  • average age/speed/rate The average age of the 'Times' reader is fairly low at 42.

• 13 typical and usual:

  • The cost of health insurance has risen above the means of the average worker.

• 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:

  • Traffic on its free website averages about 10,000 visitors a month.

• 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.