average citizen

collocation in English

meaningsofaverageandcitizen

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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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citizen
noun[C]
uk
/ˈsɪt.ɪ.zən/us
/ˈsɪt̬.ə.zən/
a person who is a member of a particular country and who has rights because of being born there or because of being given rights, or a person who lives in a particular town ...
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(Definition ofaverageandcitizenfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Issues of financial planning are, of course, important in privately-purchased pensions with decisions about retirement saving perhaps the most crucial taken by theaveragecitizen.
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Authoritarian politicians, however, who do not have to worry about elections, care less about the median voter or theaveragecitizen.
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High tax rates on theaveragecitizengenerally are not welcome.
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However, these committees are relatively intellectual affairs, rather than groups aimed at inspiring theaveragecitizen.
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In so doing, they often become less useful to theaveragecitizenfor the simple reason that the information being conveyed is divorced from an easily recognized bias.
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Political elites may have a tendency to develop an abstract or theoretical vision of reality and to live afar from the everyday concerns of theaveragecitizen.
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The language used today in many documents is very often difficult to understand and inaccessible for theaveragecitizen.
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Surely the great need of education to-day is to get theaveragecitizeninterested in it.
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To say that it is an offence for any person perhaps draws it a little widely because theaveragecitizenwould not do that.
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Theaveragecitizenrelies very heavily indeed on his insurance policies.
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It shows that there is an amount of steadiness and confidence in theaveragecitizenon which we have reason to congratulate ourselves.
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The cardinal fact is that theaveragecitizenthinks that there is still a great deal wrong with the present situation.
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I do not believe that, in this country at least, theaveragecitizenwishes to contract out of his legitimate obligations to society.
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In turn, that means that the provisions will not protect theaveragecitizen, although that is the stated intention.
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The cost per head of looking after a person aged 75 or more is over £1,000 a year, compared with £145 for looking after anaveragecitizen.
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I have only travelled abroad in the same way as theaveragecitizenof this country.
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The fixing of this charge would need to be transparent and, crucially, understood by theaveragecitizen.
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I think that both subjects are of such immense importance to theaveragecitizenthat they deserve separate treatment.
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Theaveragecitizenappreciates the main facts of the situation which he has to face in regard to food supply.
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