mileage

English

Alternative forms

• milage

Etymology

mile +‎ -age

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmaɪlədʒ/

Noun

mileage (countable and uncountable, plural mileages)

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. 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.

5. (informal) Something worth taking into consideration.

   There’s some mileage in your argument.

Derived terms

• your mileage may vary

Translations

total distance travelled

• Finnish: matkan pituus, ajomatka (fi), ajokilometrit pl
• German: Fahrleistung f
• Hungarian: megtett kilométerek
• Korean: 마일리지 (mailliji)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: kjørelengde m or f

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• Polish: przebieg (pl) m (of a vehicle)
• Portuguese: milhagem f
• Russian: пробе́г (ru) (probég)
• Spanish: millaje m
• Swedish: miltal

distance travelled on certain amount of fuel

• Finnish: See: polttoaineenkulutus (fi)
• German: Reichweite (de) f
• Korean: 주행거리 (juhaenggeori)
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• 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

• Finnish: kilometrikorvaus (fi)
• German: Kilometerpauschale (de) f, Kilometergeld n
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• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: kilometergodtgjørelse m or f

  Nynorsk: kilometergodtgjering f

• Polish: kilometrówka (pl) f (informal)

amount of service

• Finnish: käyttöikä
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• German: Laufzeit (de) f

something worth taking into consideration

• Finnish: järki (fi)
• German: Gehalt (de) m
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• Norwegian: poeng n

See also

• kilometrage
• millage
• your mileage may vary