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average
/ˈævərɪdʒ/ verb [T]Definition
› to equal a particular rate or amount as an average: Traffic on its free website averages about 10,000 visitors a month.
› to calculate the average amount of something by adding all the amounts together and then dividing this by the number of amounts: Each quarter, the magazine polls a group of forecasters and averages their predictions for economic growth.
(Definition of average verb from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary
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