Average U.P. Zamindari Abolition and Land Reforms Act, 1950, S. 39(1) According to Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, the word ‘average’ means ‘arithmetical mean : to estimate by dividing the aggregate of a series by the number of its units’. The same is the connotation of the word ‘average’ according to the Random House Dictionary of the English Language where the total receipt has been stated to mean the total receipt from sales divided by the number of the units sold. (Harbans Kumari v. State of U.P., (1979) 2 SCC 239 (241)