mileage
English
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Noun
mileage (countable and uncountable, plural mileages)
- The total distance travelled in miles or in air miles.
- The number of miles travelled by a vehicle on a certain volume of fuel.
- An allowance for travel expenses at a specified rate per mile.
- (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.
- (informal) Something worth taking into consideration.
- There’s some mileage in your argument.
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Translations
total distance travelled
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distance travelled on certain amount of fuel
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allowance for travel expenses per distance travelled
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amount of service
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something worth taking into consideration