Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Total length, extent, or distance measured or expressed in miles.
- noun Total miles covered or traveled in a given time.
- noun The amount of service, use, or wear estimated by miles used or traveled.
- noun The number of miles traveled by a motor vehicle on a given quantity of fuel.
- noun An allowance for travel expenses established at a specified rate per mile.
- noun Expense per mile, as for the use of a car.
- noun Informal The amount of service something has yielded or may yield in the future; usefulness.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Length, extent, or distance in miles; the total or aggregate number of miles of way made, used, or traversed: as, the mileage of highways or waterways in a country; the mileage of a railroad-line; the mileage of a year's traffic on a railroad, or of travel through a country.
- noun An allowance or compensation for travel or conveyance reckoned by the mile; especially, payment allowed to a public functionary for the expenses of travel in the discharge of his duties according to the number of miles passed over: as, the mileage of a sheriff, circuit judge, or member of Congress or of a legislature.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun An allowance for traveling expenses at a certain rate per mile.
- noun Aggregate length or distance in miles; esp., the sum of lengths of tracks or wires of a railroad company, telegraph company, etc.
- noun The number of miles that a vehicle can travel after consuming a certain quantity of fuel; in the United States, usually expressed in units of miles per gallon. It is sometimes used as a nmeasure of the energy efficiency of a vehicle.
- noun Use, profit or advantage.
- noun a mileage allowed for journeys supposed to be made, but not actually made.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun the
total distance , inmiles , travelled - noun the number of miles travelled by a
vehicle on a certain volume offuel - noun mileage allowance, an
allowance fortravel expenses at a specifiedrate per mile - noun informal the amount of
service that something hasyielded or may yield in future - noun informal something worth taking into consideration
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the ratio of the number of miles traveled to the number of gallons of gasoline burned
- noun distance measured in miles
- noun a travel allowance at a given rate per mile traveled
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Examples
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You have no problems with driving a diesel in Mexico, and the mileage is about 50 mpg.
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If mileage is the only factor, as opposed to comfort, room, etc.,
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Though I wonder how the mileage is on a 12. 7-liter straight-8 engine.
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I've personally driven between Cleveland and points south (including Akron), and the mileage is well known. it's about 40 miles or so. or would it have made your anal retentive day better if I had said ...
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If mileage is the only factor, as opposed to comfort, room, etc.,
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They also rewrite the articles to freshen up the information and publish it anew, which gives them more mileage from the initial work.
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bilby commented on the word mileage
I can't get much mileage out of kilometrage in a figurative sense. Causes road rage :-(
September 19, 2008