See Also: PARTICULAR AVERAGE(law)
average(1)(dictionary)
Average(medicine)
Average(finance)
Average up(finance)
Average down(finance)
With Average (W.A.)(money)
Average down(money)
With Particular Average (WPA)(money)
Average(money)

average(5) (iou)



average verb. M18.
[from AVERAGE noun2.]
verb trans. Amount to on average; do or achieve on average in any activity. M18.
D. Masson The sale of the book..averaged a thousand copies a year. G. Greene Over twenty years I have probably averaged five hundred words a day for five days a week. R. Lardner It averaged about two dollars per day for the two of us.
verb trans. Work out or estimate the average of. L18.
Southey His Sunday congregation was averaged at about six hundred persons.
verb trans. & intrans. (with out). (Cause to) result in or yield on average a moderate value, intermediate level, even distribution, etc.; even or cancel out; remove (variation) by calculating an average. E20.
Times Literary Supplement The particular obstacles will vary from time to time..but on the whole will average out. D. W. Sciama The clustering might then be real, but be averaged out by this procedure. Accountant Those who seek to average out profits by taking profit by stages.
averager noun (a) a person whose business is average adjustment; (b) a small computer designed for the automatic averaging of a series of input signals: L19.