mileage
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noun
- an allowance for traveling expenses at a specified amount per mile
- aggregate distance in miles or total number of miles traveled, recorded, etc.
- rate per mile, as in allowing for travel expenses or in charging for the use of railroad freight cars
- the number of miles a motor vehicle will go on a gallon of fuel, a tire will run before it wears out, etc.
- the amount of use, service, or benefit one gets or can get from something
See mileage in American Heritage Dictionary 4
also mil·age (mīˈlĭj)
noun- Total length, extent, or distance measured or expressed in miles.
- Total miles covered or traveled in a given time.
- The amount of service, use, or wear estimated by miles used or traveled: This tire will give very good mileage.
- The number of miles traveled by a motor vehicle on a given quantity of fuel.
a. An allowance for travel expenses established at a specified rate per mile.
b. Expense per mile, as for the use of a car.
- Informal The amount of service something has yielded or may yield in the future; usefulness: a tape player that still has a lot of mileage left.
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