on average

English

Alternative forms

• on the average
• on an average

Pronunciation

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Prepositional phrase

on average

1. Expressed as a measure of central tendency (usually the arithmetic mean).

   On average, students spend about 20 hours a week studying.

   The journey takes, on average, two hours.

   • 2025 December 9, Rachel Konrad and Matt Abrahams, “Why Young People Are Struggling to Communicate”, in TIME:

     U.S. teens spend on average 5 hours per day on social media; nearly half are online constantly.

2. (idiomatic) Usually, typically; as a rule; as often as not.

   People these days live longer on average

Translations

as a measure of central tendency

Armenian: please add this translation if you can Belarusian: у сярэднім (u sjarednim) Bulgarian: средно (bg) (sredno) Chinese: Mandarin: 平均 (zh) (píngjūn de) Czech: průměrně, v průměru Danish: i gennemsnit Dutch: gemiddeld (nl) Finnish: keskimäärin (fi) French: en moyenne (fr) German: durchschnittlich (de), im Durchschnitt Hungarian: átlagosan (hu) Icelandic: að meðaltali Irish: ar an meán Italian: in media (it) Polish: średnio (pl), przeciętnie (pl) Romanian: în medie Russian: в сре́днем (ru) (v srédnem) Spanish: en promedio, como promedio, por término medio Swedish: i genomsnitt (sv) Ukrainian: please add this translation if you can Welsh: ar gyfartaledd

usually — see usually