mileage

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mileage

  • /ˈmaɪləd͡ʒ/
  • /ˈmaɪlɪd͡ʒ/

noun mileages · milage

  1. countable, uncountable 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.
  2. countable, uncountable The number of miles travelled by a vehicle on a certain volume of fuel. 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 stag
  3. countable, uncountable An allowance for travel expenses at a specified rate per mile.
  4. countable, uncountable A fee based on miles of use, as of an automobile or a railroad car.
  5. countable, informal, uncountable The amount of service that something has yielded or may yield in future. This old PC has still got plenty of mileage in it.
  6. countable, informal, uncountable Something worth taking into consideration. There’s some mileage in your argument.
  7. countable, slang, uncountable 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

    Similar: body count

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: milage, milestone, travelled, kilometric, mile, distance, kilometre, length, miles, efficiency, kilometrage, span, range, mpg, profit, leverage

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noun total distance travelled

Españolmillaje, odometraje
한국어마일리지 mailliji
Portuguêsmilhagem
Françaiskilometrage, millage
DeutschFahrleistung, Laufleistung
Русскийпробе́г probég

noun distance travelled on certain amount of fuel

한국어주행거리 juhaenggeori
Françaisconsommation
DeutschReichweite

noun allowance for travel expenses per distance travelled

DeutschKilometerpauschale, Kilometergeld

noun amount of service

DeutschLaufzeit

noun something worth taking into consideration

DeutschGehalt

noun number of sexual encounters

Русскийпробег probeg

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@misc{mileage_2026,
  title = {mileage},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/mileage},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}