mileage

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   The total distance travelled in miles or in air miles.

   • 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.
   • Having laid out these big-picture figures, the report then begins its analysis of traffic types against route mileage.
2. 2

   The number of miles travelled by a vehicle on a certain volume of fuel.

3. 3

   An allowance for travel expenses at a specified rate per mile.

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   1. 4

      The amount of service that something has yielded or may yield in future.

      • This old PC has still got plenty of mileage in it.
      • There’s quite a lot of mileage in language, speech and computing, particularly in research.
      • Don't waste your money on a new set of speakers / You get more mileage from a cheap pair of sneakers / Next phase, new wave, dance craze, anyways / It's still rock and roll to me
   2. 5

      Something worth taking into consideration.

      • There’s some mileage in your argument.
   3. 6

      The total number of a person's past sexual encounters.

      • 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

The neighborhood

• neighborkilometrage
• neighbormillage
• neighborodometry
• neighboryour mileage may vary