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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
mileage
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
annual
▪ The annual mileages to be run by the new units will be well in excess of 150,000!
▪ Subjects were assigned to one of four different conditions with three subjects from each annual mileage group assigned to each condition.
high
▪ Although they had made high mileage cars look like low mileage ones, they had sold them at high mileage car prices.
▪ Why bother with speed work, interval training or high mileage?
▪ Although they had made high mileage cars look like low mileage ones, they had sold them at high mileage car prices.
▪ Early 2.8-litre cars are perhaps the best value around, particularly those with high mileage.
▪ However, the world high mileage title looks safe.
▪ The result is higher mileage, more energy use and more pollution.
▪ But remember that these cars accrue, and can withstand, significantly higher mileages than petrol cars, 50-90,000 being the norm.
unlimited
▪ The Shogun is in any event protected by a three year unlimited mileage warranty.
▪ Cars come with manual shift and unlimited mileage.
▪ All genuine Toyota parts carry a 12-month unlimited mileage warranty.
▪ Peace of Mind - All Renaults carry an unlimited mileage warranty for 12 months after purchase.
▪ Our rates include unlimited mileage, local taxes, and collision damage waiver.
▪ Daily rates vary according to whether you've requested a set or unlimited mileage, and include collision damage waiver.
▪ Car Rental is available on either a limited or unlimited mileage basis.
■ NOUN
allowance
▪ Now the Government has proposed to crack down on mileage allowances by taxing drivers who cover large distances.
■ VERB
get
▪ I can only think that the teacher wanted to get as much mileage from the whole thing as she could.
▪ He gets some good comic mileage out of a stuffed swordfish in the opening sequence, and handles one-liners well.
▪ By now Heseltine has probably got about as much mileage out of such occasions as he can reasonably expect.
▪ This is where the theory starts to help us get more mileage from our old friends the minor pentatonic scales.
▪ It was a sport utility that was also a personal vehicle and it got good mileage.
▪ I can get more mileage from her still.
▪ Everthorpe was getting a lot of mileage out of the mix-up, trying to make him look foolish.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a used car with low mileage
▪ By adding another city to the network, we can actually decrease the mileage of cable needed.
▪ I get paid for mileage.
▪ I set the mileage each time I get gas.
▪ Mitchell was trying to decide which ideas still had some mileage left in them.
▪ The rental car costs $35 a day, with unlimited mileage.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Although they had made high mileage cars look like low mileage ones, they had sold them at high mileage car prices.
▪ By now Heseltine has probably got about as much mileage out of such occasions as he can reasonably expect.
▪ Car Rental is available on either a limited or unlimited mileage basis.
▪ Even with lower mileage, Hunter is amazed that she can go 600 miles on a third of a tank of gas.
▪ It was a sport utility that was also a personal vehicle and it got good mileage.
▪ North or south of that line, however, the mileage value of each degree decreases.
▪ The anticipated mileage figures are 12,000 miles perannum for the cars and 20,000 miles perannum for the vans.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Mileage

Mileage \Mile"age\ (m[imac]l"[asl]j; 48), n.

  1. An allowance for traveling expenses at a certain rate per mile.

  2. Aggregate length or distance in miles; esp., the sum of lengths of tracks or wires of a railroad company, telegraph company, etc. [Written also milage.]

  3. The number of miles that a vehicle can travel after consuming a certain quantity of fuel; in the United States, usually expressed in units of miles per gallon; as, smaller cars tend to get better mileage. It is sometimes used as a nmeasure of the energy efficiency of a vehicle.

  4. Use, profit or advantage; as, he got a lot of mileage out of one hit record.

    Constructive mileage, a mileage allowed for journeys supposed to be made, but not actually made.
    --Bartlett.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mileage

1754, "fixed rate per mile," from mile + -age. Meaning "a total number of miles" is from 1861.

Wiktionary
mileage

alt. 1 the total distance travelled in miles or in air miles 2 the number of miles travelled by a vehicle on a certain volume of fuel 3 mileage allowance, an allowance for travel expenses at a specified rate per mile 4 (context informal English) the amount of service that something has yielded or may yield in future 5 (context informal English) something worth taking into consideration n. 1 the total distance travelled in miles or in air miles 2 the number of miles travelled by a vehicle on a certain volume of fuel 3 mileage allowance, an allowance for travel expenses at a specified rate per mile 4 (context informal English) the amount of service that something has yielded or may yield in future 5 (context informal English) something worth taking into consideration

WordNet
mileage
  1. n. distance measured in miles [syn: milage]

  2. the ratio of the number of miles traveled to the number of gallons of gasoline burned [syn: fuel consumption rate, gasoline mileage, gas mileage]

  3. a travel allowance at a given rate per mile traveled

Wikipedia
Mileage

Mileage is a distance measured in miles.

Usage examples of "mileage".

To the objection that the mileage formula was inapplicable in this instance because of the disparity of the revenue-producing capacity between the lines in and out of the State, the Court answered that mathematical exactitude in making an apportionment had never been a constitutional requirement.

I ran up the mileage on the rented car while Tim and I toured Allentown for a place to lunch.

And because of the preheating it actually gets better mileage out of the engine.

I switch on the drill the mileage numbers on the speedo spin backwards at a fantastic rate.

No matter how many nips and tucks, shots and peels and ego-boosters she paid for, the mileage showed.

Big Three automakers was exempting SUVs from the mileage requirements of regular passenger cars.

This galaxy of applications doesn't even count the vast modern spooling mileage of adhesive tapes: package tape, industrial tape, surgical tape, masking tape, electrical tape, duct tape, plumbing tape, and much, much more.

Rental car mileage records can give me an approximate radius of travel from that point.

It seemed to Stu that the days would go on forever like this: Glen bitching goodnaturedly about the food, Larry noting their mileage on his dog-eared cheat sheet, the two cups of coffee, someone burying yesterday's scut, someone else burying the fire.

There Patel got out with his burden, walked along the platform and took the escalator up through the tubelike corridor that led to the overpass which avoided the mainline BR tracks: then down the other side again, and out across the open concrete plaza from which jutted several large slabs of ancient wall, not much more than fieldstones mortared together—a remnant of the old days when the City of London was all the London there was, and that tiny square mileage had a proper defensive wall of its own.

Radial tires, for instance, will give you about 4 percent better mileage than bias-ply tires because their more rigid construction makes them less likely to flatten out under load.

Everybody talks about Rolls- Royces and Flivvers and carburetors and mileage and oil.

By the same token, if you increase pressure from 24 to 30 PSI, you'll increase your gas mileage about 3-4 percent (more in some cases) and your tire life maybe 3-6 percent.

Three weeks later each of those antique buses had been brought fully up to Shorty's and Dorothy's standards with regard to roadworthiness, gas mileage, and emissions cleanliness.

A constant speed is good for gas mileage -- and for some reason that seemed important at the time.