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mileage

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mile·age also mil·age  (mlj)
n.
1. Total length, extent, or distance measured or expressed in miles.
2. Total miles covered or traveled in a given time.
3. The amount of service, use, or wear estimated by miles used or traveled: This tire will give very good mileage.
4. The number of miles traveled by a motor vehicle on a given quantity of fuel.
5.
a. An allowance for travel expenses established at a specified rate per mile.
b. Expense per mile, as for the use of a car.
6. 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.

mileage
Noun
1. a distance expressed in miles
2. the total number of miles that a motor vehicle has travelled
3. the number of miles a motor vehicle will travel on one gallon of fuel
4. Informal the usefulness or benefit of something: the opposition is trying to make political mileage out of the issue
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.mileagemileage - distance measured in miles
distance - the property created by the space between two objects or points
2.mileage - the ratio of the number of miles traveled to the number of gallons of gasoline burned
ratio - the relative magnitudes of two quantities (usually expressed as a quotient)
3.mileage - a travel allowance at a given rate per mile traveled
travel allowance, travel reimbursement - a sum allowed for travel
Translations
Spanish mileage [ˈmaɪlɪdʒ] nnúmero de millas;
(AUT) → kilometraje m

French mileage [ˈmaɪlɪdʒ] mile ndistance f en milles, kilométrage m
German mileage [ˈmaɪlɪdʒ] mile nMeilenzahl f (fig); Nutzen m;
to get a lot of mileage out of sth → etw gründlich ausnutzen;
there is a lot of mileage in the idea → aus der Idee lässt sich viel machen

Italian mileage [ˈmaɪlɪdʒ] ndistanza in miglia, chilometraggio

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"Instructions to take you on to Yarmouth, if possible, sir," he announced, "and to collect the mileage at our destination.
But as the mileage lessened between her and the spot of her pilgrimage, so did Tess's confidence decrease, and her enterprise loom out more formidably.
By obtaining control of a certain up-country bank, two general stores, and several logging camps, he could come into control of a certain dinky jerkwater line which shall here be nameless, but which, in his hands, would prove the key to a vastly larger situation involving more main-line mileage almost than there were spikes in the aforesaid dinky jerkwater.
 
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