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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Mileage \Mile"age\ (m[imac]l"[asl]j; 48), noun
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. [PJC]
4. Use, profit or advantage; as, he got a lot of mileage out of one hit record. [PJC]
{Constructive mileage}, a mileage allowed for journeys supposed to be made, but not actually made. --Bartlett.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
mileage
noun
1: 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
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
54 Moby Thesaurus words for "mileage": account, aesthetic distance, allowance, assessment, bill, blackmail, blood money, clearance, compass, deep space, depths of space, distance, divergence, emolument, extension, extent, farness, fee, footing, hush money, infinity, initiation fee, leeway, length, lengthiness, light-years, linear measures, long time, longitude, longness, margin, measure, overall length, parsecs, perpetuity, perspective, piece, range, reach, reckoning, remoteness, retainer, retaining fee, scot, separation, space, span, stipend, stretch, stride, tribute, way, ways, yardage
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