Mileage

//ˈmaɪləd͡ʒ// noun, slang

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The total distance travelled in miles or in air miles. countable, uncountable

    "But beyond these cut-offs, to avoid the wholesale alteration of all mileposting and mileages—of bridges and culverts, for example—the original mileposts have remained unaltered."

  2. 2
    distance measured in miles wordnet
  3. 3
    The number of miles travelled by a vehicle on a certain volume of fuel. countable, uncountable

    "On the other hand, there will be widespread agreement with Sir Brian's belief that, when a British main line has been completely dieselised and the schedules have been recast to suit the new traction, much higher daily mileages than 350 are not only possible but requisite, at least in the early stages of dieselisation."

  4. 4
    a travel allowance at a given rate per mile traveled wordnet
  5. 5
    An allowance for travel expenses at a specified rate per mile. countable, uncountable
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  1. 6
    the ratio of the number of miles traveled to the number of gallons of gasoline burned wordnet
  2. 7
    The amount of service that something has yielded or may yield in future. countable, informal, uncountable

    "This old PC has still got plenty of mileage in it."

  3. 8
    Something worth taking into consideration. countable, informal, uncountable

    "There’s some mileage in your argument."

  4. 9
    The total number of a person's past sexual encounters. countable, slang, uncountable

    "Now she's phoning me on private When I told her I don't like it She's a ho and she got mileage Probably more miles than my whip (Skrrt) I see it then I buy it She's still eating on my privates"

Etymology

From mile + -age.

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