avoirdupois unit

Questions about avoirdupois unit

What does avoirdupois unit mean?

avoirdupois unit means "any of the units of the avoirdupois system of weights".

Is avoirdupois unit a common word?

avoirdupois unit is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.