Definition of On the average

1. Adverb. Typically. "On average he watches three movies a week"

Exact synonyms: On Average

Lexicographical Neighbors of On The Average

on sufferance
on tap
on tap(p)
on tape
on target
on tender hooks
on tenterhooks
on that
on that point
on the Q.T.
on the QT
on the air
on the alert
on the alert(p)
on the anvil
on the average (current term)
on the back burner
on the back foot
on the back of
on the ball
on the bench
on the bias
on the blink
on the books
on the bounce
on the brain
on the brink
on the bubble
on the cards

Literary usage of On the average

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Parliamentary Debatesby Thomas Curson Hansard, Great Britain Parliament by Thomas Curson Hansard, Great Britain Parliament (1824)
"... does not exceed the duty charged, not only in the preceding year, but on the average of the last three The next item, Sir, to which I shall refer, ..."

2. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1909)
"... of Brugsch are based on the average length of a human generation; Meyer's on the minimum reign-lengths shown by the records; agronomical calculations ..."

3. Railway Economy: A Treatise on the New Art of Transport, Its Management by Dionysius Lardner (1850)
"In like manner, it appears that every second-class carriage carries, on the average, 13 passengers, and travels on an average 45 miles; it therefore ..."

4. The Americana: A Universal Reference Library, Comprising the Arts and ...edited by Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines edited by Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines (1912)
"The number of miles run daily, on the average, by freight cars is an ... or made that many car miles; that on the average it moved daily 22.7 miles; ..."

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