mileage

English

Alternative forms

• milage

Etymology

mile +‎ -age

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmaɪləd͡ʒ/, IPA^(key): /ˈmaɪlɪd͡ʒ/

• Audio (Southern England)

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Noun

mileage (countable and uncountable, plural mileages)

1. The total distance travelled in miles or in air miles.
   • 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.
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.

6. (slang) The number of sexual encounters by which a woman’s sexual market value is projected.
   • 2019 February 1, Fredo (lyrics and music), “Mmhm” (track 3, 0:48–0:59 from the start), in Third Avenue‎^[1]:

     Now she's phoning me on private
     When I told her I don't like it
     She's a ho and she got mileage
     Probably more miles than my whip (Skrrt)
     I see it then I buy it
     She's still eating on my privates

Derived terms

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

 

Translations

total distance travelled

• Bulgarian: километраж (bg) m (kilometraž)
• Finnish: matkan pituus, ajomatka (fi), ajokilometrit pl
• French: kilometrage (fr) m, millage (fr) m
• German: Fahrleistung f, Laufleistung 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 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)

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

• kilometrage
• millage
• your mileage may vary