average share

collocation in English

meaningsofaverageandshare

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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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share
noun
uk
/ʃeər/us
/ʃer/
a part of something that has been divided between ...
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(Definition ofaverageandsharefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Theaverageshareof party votes in the proportional district was 64 percent.
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The remaining sample is broken into five equal-sized quintiles according to theiraverageshareof stock holdings over the sample.
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Table 1 also shows theaverageshareof kerosene purchased from the private market as opposed to the subsidized public distribution system.
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This is measured as theaverageshareof off-farm income in total household income.
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Theaverageshareof votes for new parties is about 19 per cent.
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Consequently, the winning party'saverageshareof the popular vote fell from 48.1 per cent to 43.6 per cent.
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If their children were too young to work, theaverageshareof married women's earnings equalled about 20 per cent of the entire family income.
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The privileged farmers receive a higher thanaverageshare.
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Theaverageshareis 0.0067 for our data.
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Plans are stratified into six groups according to theiraverageshareof assets invested in employer stock over the sample period.
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Theaverageshareof votes won by a new party was 19 per cent, and in several elections new parties have won more than 50 per cent of the vote.
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Resource abundance is measured as theaverageshareof fuel and mineral product exports in total exports.
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We operationalize the normal vote variable as theaverageshareof the two-party vote received by the incumbent party in the immediately prior gubernatorial, senatorial and presidential elections.
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It is designed to meet a specific problem—namely, deprived areas that have received less than theaverageshareof lottery funding.
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Those problems include a higher thanaverageshareof unemployment; a large number of houses in multiple occupation; and a large number of elderly people.
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There is no evidence at all that those companies which plough back a larger thanaverageshareof their profits are any more efficient.
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Theaveragesharein national employment of the five largest firms in all sectors has been dropping for a decade.
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In this country local authorities have anaveragesharein expenditure but a low percentage of revenue from their own taxes.
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