on the average

1. 1.

   typically

   “on average he watches three movies a week”

   Synonymson average

Questions about on the average

What does on the average mean?

on the average means "typically".

What is another word for on the average?

Close synonyms include on 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 the average a common word?

on the 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.