The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 8 letter word AVERAGES
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More clues leading to the result AVERAGES
- Hail storms of concern to batsmen?
- Declare times in statistical information
- State has a long time to produce standard figures
- Means one against agrees to differ
- Do only mediocre cricketers have these?
- Means hail storms may be seen
- Means by which woman ascended with change of gears
- Means, say, salary must be topped
- State has plenty of time and means
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What does AVERAGES mean?
AVERAGES noun- The arithmetic mean.
- Any measure of central tendency, especially any mean, the median, or the mode.
- (marine) Financial loss due to damage to transported goods; compensation for damage or loss.
- Customs duty or similar charge payable on transported goods.
- Proportional or equitable distribution of financial expense.
- An indication of a player's ability calculated from his scoring record, etc.
- (in the plural) In the corn trade, the medial price of the several kinds of grain in the principal corn markets.
- To compute the average of, especially the arithmetic mean.
- Over a period of time or across members of a population, to have or generate a mean value of.
- To divide among a number, according to a given proportion.
- To be, generally or on average.
- The service that a tenant owed his lord, to be done by the animals of the tenant, such as the transportation of wheat, turf, etc.