Word Meaning

Meaning of average

- That service which a tenant owed his lord, to be done by the work beasts of the tenant, as the carriage of wheat, turf, etc.
- A tariff or duty on goods, etc.
- Any charge in addition to the regular charge for freight of goods shipped.
- A contribution to a loss or charge which has been imposed upon one of several for the general benefit; damage done by sea perils.
- The equitable and proportionate distribution of loss or expense among all interested.
- A mean proportion, medial sum or quantity, made out of unequal sums or quantities; an arithmetical mean. Thus, if A loses 5 dollars, B 9, and C 16, the sum is 30, and the average 10.
- Any medial estimate or general statement derived from a comparison of diverse specific cases; a medium or usual size, quantity, quality, rate, etc.
- In the English corn trade, the medial price of the several kinds of grain in the principal corn markets.
- Pertaining to an average or mean; medial; containing a mean proportion; of a mean size, quality, ability, etc.; ordinary; usual; as, an average rate of profit; an average amount of rain; the average Englishman; beings of the average stamp.
- According to the laws of averages; as, the loss must be made good by average contribution.
- To find the mean of, when sums or quantities are unequal; to reduce to a mean.
- To divide among a number, according to a given proportion; as, to average a loss.
- To do, accomplish, get, etc., on an average.
- To form, or exist in, a mean or medial sum or quantity; to amount to, or to be, on an average; as, the losses of the owners will average twenty five dollars each; these spars average ten feet in length.

Crossword clue for average

- Arithmetic mean
- Arithmetical mean
- Assert era is commonplace
- Declare one’s public approval of
- Even (out)
- Even out to
- Even out to affirm age
- Garden-variety
- Mean
- Median
- Mediocre
- Medium
- Middling
- Neither good nor bad
- Norm
- Normal
- Par
- Run-of-the-mill
- So-so
- Solemnly declare age is typical
- Standard
- Statistical mean
- The common run
- the mean which is calculated by dividing the sum of the values in the set by their number
- Typical
- What a mean medium!