mileage
or mil·age
[mahy-lij]
- the aggregate number of miles traveled over in a given time.
- length, extent, or distance in miles.
- the number of miles or the average distance that a vehicle can travel on a specified quantity of fuel: the car gets good mileage.
- wear, use, advantage, or profit: She won't get much more mileage out of this old coat.
- an allowance for traveling expenses at a fixed rate per mile: His mileage came to $90.
- a fixed charge per mile, as for railroad transportation.
- mileage ticket.
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Origin of mileage
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Contemporary Examples
Your mileage may vary, depending on your ideological priors.
Plastic Jungle has worked out a pretty sweet deal with the United Airlines mileage program.
Look at the mileage and check out the vehicle—if it looks too good to be true, it probably is.
Your mileage may vary, of course: for a non-baker, I'd say that a food processor is hands down the most useful.
A new Obama campaign ad accuses Romney of standing with Big Oil, from subsidies to renewable energy to mileage standards.
Historical Examples
Notoriously, he observed, the mileage of members was scandalously small.
The mileage was small and, instead of elation, I felt discouragement.
A Negro Explorer at the North PoleMatthew A. Henson
Mileage's to get ye there an' take ye home again when term's over.
The Calico CatCharles Miner Thompson
It was the mileage made on October 12th, 1492, that counted.
Evening Round UpWilliam Crosbie Hunter
So he opened it, and leaned over to have a look at the odometer to check the mileage.
Out Like a LightGordon Randall Garrett
mileage
milage
- a distance expressed in miles
- the total number of miles that a motor vehicle has travelled
- allowance for travelling expenses, esp as a fixed rate per mile
- the number of miles a motor vehicle will travel on one gallon of fuel
- informal use, benefit, or service provided by somethingthis scheme has a lot of mileage left
- informal grounds, substance, or weightsome mileage in the objectors' arguments
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Word Origin and History for mileage
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