Mileage

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  • 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. undefined
  • 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. The amount of service something has yielded or may yield in the future; usefulness.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. the total distance, in miles, travelled
  • noun. the number of miles travelled by a vehicle on a certain volume of fuel
  • noun. mileage allowance, an allowance for travel expenses at a specified rate per mile
  • noun. the amount of service that something has yielded or may yield in future
  • noun. something worth taking into consideration
  • 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
  • Word Usage
    "You have no problems with driving a diesel in Mexico, and the mileage is about 50 mpg."
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