Associations to the word «Mileage»

Wiktionary

MILEAGE, noun. The total distance travelled in miles or in air miles.
MILEAGE, noun. The number of miles travelled by a vehicle on a certain volume of fuel.
MILEAGE, noun. Mileage allowance, an allowance for travel expenses at a specified rate per mile.
MILEAGE, noun. (informal) The amount of service that something has yielded or may yield in future.
MILEAGE, noun. (informal) Something worth taking into consideration.

Dictionary definition

MILEAGE, noun. Distance measured in miles.
MILEAGE, noun. The ratio of the number of miles traveled to the number of gallons of gasoline burned.
MILEAGE, noun. A travel allowance at a given rate per mile traveled.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats