AVERAGE CITIZEN collocation | meaning and examples of use (original) (raw)
collocation in English
meanings of average and citizen
average
adjective
uk
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/ˈæv.ər.ɪdʒ/us
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/ˈæv.ɚ.ɪdʒ/
An average number is the number you get by adding two or more amounts together and dividing the total by the number ...
citizen
uk
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/ˈsɪt.ɪ.zən/us
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/ˈsɪt̬.ə.zən/
a person who is a member of a particular country and who has rights because of being born there or because of being given rights, or a person who lives in a particular town ...
Examples of average citizen
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Issues of financial planning are, of course, important in privately-purchased pensions with decisions about retirement saving perhaps the most crucial taken by the average citizen.
Authoritarian politicians, however, who do not have to worry about elections, care less about the median voter or the average citizen.
High tax rates on the average citizen generally are not welcome.
However, these committees are relatively intellectual affairs, rather than groups aimed at inspiring the average citizen.
In so doing, they often become less useful to the average citizen for the simple reason that the information being conveyed is divorced from an easily recognized bias.
Political elites may have a tendency to develop an abstract or theoretical vision of reality and to live afar from the everyday concerns of the average citizen.
The language used today in many documents is very often difficult to understand and inaccessible for the average citizen.
Surely the great need of education to-day is to get the average citizen interested in it.
To say that it is an offence for any person perhaps draws it a little widely because the average citizen would not do that.
The average citizen relies very heavily indeed on his insurance policies.
It shows that there is an amount of steadiness and confidence in the average citizen on which we have reason to congratulate ourselves.
The cardinal fact is that the average citizen thinks that there is still a great deal wrong with the present situation.
I do not believe that, in this country at least, the average citizen wishes to contract out of his legitimate obligations to society.
In turn, that means that the provisions will not protect the average citizen, although that is the stated intention.
The cost per head of looking after a person aged 75 or more is over £1,000 a year, compared with £145 for looking after an average citizen.
I have only travelled abroad in the same way as the average citizen of this country.
The fixing of this charge would need to be transparent and, crucially, understood by the average citizen.
I think that both subjects are of such immense importance to the average citizen that they deserve separate treatment.
The average citizen appreciates the main facts of the situation which he has to face in regard to food supply.
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