on average

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   typically

   “on average he watches three movies a week”

   Synonymson the average

Questions about on average

What does on average mean?

on average means "typically".

What is another word for on average?

Close synonyms include on the average. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is on average a common word?

on average 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.