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English

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English Wikipedia has an article on:mileageWikipedia

Alternative forms

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• milage

Etymology

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From mile +‎ -age.

Pronunciation

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• IPA(key): /ˈmaɪləd͡ʒ/, /ˈmaɪlɪd͡ʒ/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

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mileage (countable and uncountable, plural mileages)

1. The total distance travelled in miles or in air miles.
   • 1946 July and August, “Mileposts and their Peculiarities”, in Railway Magazine, page 217: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.
   • 1952 January, “Notes and News: The Indian Regrouping Scheme”, in Railway Magazine, pages 62-63:In June, 1950, therefore, the Railway Board prepared a tentative regrouping scheme, which contemplated the formation of six new railway systems, each serving a specific zone, and consisting of approximately 5,000 to 6,000 route-miles of line, the total mileage being 33,000.
   • 2023 March 8, Gareth Dennis, “The Reshaping of things to come...”, in RAIL, number 978, page 46:Having laid out these big-picture figures, the report then begins its analysis of traffic types against route mileage.
2. The number of miles travelled by a vehicle on a certain volume of fuel.
   • 1961 July, “Editorial: Sir Brian begs the questions”, in Trains Illustrated, page 386: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 stages of dieselisation.
3. An allowance for travel expenses at a specified rate per mile.
4. (informal) 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.
   • 1980, Billy Joel, “It's Still Rock and Roll to Me”, in Glass Houses‎[1]: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
5. (informal) Something worth taking into consideration. There’s some mileage in your argument.
6. (slang) The total number of a person's past sexual encounters.
   • 2019 February 1, Fredo, “Mmhm” (track 3, 0:48–0:59 from the start), in Third Avenue‎[2]:Now she's phoning me on privateWhen I told her I don't like itShe's a ho and she got mileageProbably more miles than my whip (Skrrt)I see it then I buy itShe's still eating on my privates

Derived terms

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• car mileage
• make mileage out of
• maximum permitted mileage
• ticket point mileage
• ton mileage
• your mileage may differ
• your mileage may vary

Translations

[edit] total distance travelled

Bulgarian: километра́ж (bg) m (kilometráž) Finnish: matkan pituus, ajomatka (fi), ajokilometrit pl French: kilometrage (fr) m, millage (fr) m German: Fahrleistung f, Laufleistung (de) f Hungarian: megtett kilométerek, futásteljesítmény (hu) sg Korean: 마일리지 (mailliji) Norwegian: Bokmål: kjørelengde m or f Polish: przebieg (pl) m (of a vehicle) Portuguese: milhagem (pt) f Russian: пробе́г (ru) m (probég) Spanish: millaje m Swedish: miltal Ukrainian: кілометра́ж (uk) m (kilometráž), пробі́г m (probíh)

distance travelled on certain amount of fuel

Bulgarian: пробег (bg) m (probeg) Finnish: kantama (fi) (see also polttoaineenkulutus (“fuel consumption”)) French: consommation (fr) f German: Reichweite (de) f Hungarian: adott üzemanyaggal megtett távolság Korean: 주행거리 (juhaenggeori) Norwegian: Bokmål: rekkevidde m or f, drivstofforbruk n Nynorsk: rekkevidd f Swedish: bensinförbrukning (sv) c, räckvidd (sv) c

allowance for travel expenses per distance travelled

Bulgarian: пътни пари (pǎtni pari) Finnish: kilometrikorvaus (fi) German: Kilometerpauschale (de) f, Kilometergeld n Hungarian: kilométerpénz (hu), útiköltség-térítés Norwegian: Bokmål: kilometergodtgjørelse m or f Nynorsk: kilometergodtgjering f Polish: kilometrówka (pl) f (informal) Turkish: harcırah (tr), yolluk (tr)

amount of service

Finnish: käyttöikä German: Laufzeit (de) f Hungarian: élettartam (hu)

something worth taking into consideration

Finnish: järki (fi) German: Gehalt (de) m Hungarian: fantázia (hu) Norwegian: poeng (no) n

number of sexual encounters

See also

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• kilometrage
• millage
• your mileage may vary

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