average ability

collocation in English

meaningsofaverageandability

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average
adjective
uk
/ˈæv.ər.ɪdʒ/us
/ˈæv.ɚ.ɪdʒ/
An average number is the number you get by adding two or more amounts together and dividing the total by the number ...
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ability
noun[C or U]
uk
/əˈbɪl.ə.ti/us
/əˈbɪl.ə.t̬i/
the physical or mental power or skill needed to ...
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(Definition ofaverageandabilityfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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No notable differences were found among children with strengths in crystallized ability and short-term memory, processing speed, andaverageabilitywith no secondary strengths.
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The peer group here is measured by theaverageabilityat the school.
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Each of these three profiles was approximately centered onaverageability.
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The peer group measure increases because some unable students leave the public school, bringing up theaverageability.
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This, of course, brings down theaverageabilityin the public school.
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There are those of aboveaverageabilitywho will not go on to institutions of higher education.
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They are not like piecework prices which are fixed according to the best man or to the man ofaverageability.
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They are the schools which, by and large, will be the ones that the children of average and belowaverageabilitywill attend.
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We have to remember that that type of school, the secondary modern school, caters for the child ofaverageability.
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Any man ofaverageabilitypractising in the courts is able to earn a substantial income.
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It seems that the most able children and those belowaverageabilityare the least stimulated.
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They are often of higher thanaverageability.
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Children are divided into aboveaverageability,averageabilityand, at the bottom, belowaverageability.
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I say "at least", because the target entails that those ofaverageabilityand above will also achieve correspondingly more at the age of 16.
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With the rapid development of industry and our social services, we require an ever-increasing number of persons of aboveaverageabilityto operate and administer.
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That is not to say that the gentlemen who undertake these duties are men of belowaverageability.
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These proposals were framed with the very aim of helping the transition from education to work of young people of broadaverageability.
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How would it improve teachers' expectations if pupils ofaverageabilitywere discouraged from sitting examinations?
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We all want to encourage achievers as well as those who are ofaverageability.
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