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Webster 1913 Edition
Mileage
Mile′age
(mīl′ā̍j; 48)
, Noun.
1.
An allowance for traveling expenses at a certain rate per mile.
2.
Aggregate length or distance in miles; esp., the sum of lengths of tracks or wires of a railroad company, telegraph company, etc.
[Written also
milage
.] Constructive mileage
, a mileage allowed for journeys supposed to be made, but not actually made.
Bartlett.
Webster 1828 Edition
Mileage
MI'LEAGE
,Noun.
Definition 2024
mileage
mileage
English
Alternative forms
Noun
mileage (countable and uncountable, plural mileages)
- The total distance travelled in miles or in air miles.
- The number of miles travelled by a vehicle on a certain volume of fuel.
- Mileage allowance, an allowance for travel expenses at a specified rate per mile.
- (informal) The amount of service that something has yielded or may yield in future.
- This old PC has still got plenty of mileage in it.
- There's quite a lot of mileage in language, speech and computing, particularly in research.
- (informal) Something worth taking into consideration.
- There's some mileage in your argument.
Translations
total distance travelled
distance travelled on certain amount of fuel
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allowance for travel expenses per distance travelled
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amount of service
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