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- He averaged 14 strikeouts per game last season.
- Ticket prices for the concert average at $45.
- Towards the end of the season, the team averaged three goals a game.
- The show averages a weekly audience of eight million.
- Hotels in the region are expensive, averaging £100 a night.
Phrasal verbs
average adjective (USUAL)
Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples
- acceptableYour essay was acceptable, but I think you could have done better.
- reasonableThey have a reasonable chance of winning.
- adequateThe law provides adequate compensation for robbery victims.
- passableI speak passable Spanish.
- will doIt's not perfect, but it'll do.
Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples
- ordinaryHe took ordinary household objects and transformed them into pieces of art.
- everydayComputers are now just a part of everyday life.
- quotidianWe longed for the quotidian rituals, like shopping and tea, that the end of the war would bring.
- day-to-dayDay-to-day operations of the team would be handled by the assistant coach.
- dailyI'm looking for a good daily shampoo that won't damage my hair.
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Idiom
(Definition of average from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
average | American Dictionary
average noun (USUAL STANDARD)
average noun (AMOUNT)
Idiom
(Definition of average from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)
average | Business English
daily/monthly/quarterly average Trading was 297 million shares, down from the three-month daily average of 313 million shares.
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Phrasal verb
(Definition of average from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)
Examples of average
average
Moreover, the risk estimates and difference scores were separately averaged across the 14 pleasant and the 18 aversive events.
At some level, this averaging requires a memory for past events that lasts at least several minutes.
Environmental data were averaged for five crop development stages.
Means are shown as 5-year moving averages.
The results for the single selection environments were averaged.
Final totals and averages are taken in each column cells without an asterisk!.
Results of the four individual plants were averaged.
Egg survival averaged 99.5%, and survival to adulthood from the pupal stage was 100% regardless of host plant (excluding chilli) (fig. 3).
The removed reaction times were replaced by the corresponding condition averages for the participant.
Heterozygosities averaged over loci exceeded 50% in all populations.
However, the overall scores when averaged out as a class showed an increase in each of the four categories.
In the absence of interactions involving the sentence factor, the standard procedure has been to conduct analyses of ratings averaged across test sentences.
Figure 1 summarizes the averages (and standard deviations) of the gesture rate by language, for both iconic and noniconic gestures.
Tables 2 and 3 list the accuracy means for each condition, averaged across five independent simulations.
Between the atoms the interaction becomes the free energy of the representative atoms, averaging over the motion of the constituent atoms of each element.
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