Mileage

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Mileage \Mile"age\ (m[imac]l"[asl]j; 48), n.
     1. An allowance for traveling expenses at a certain rate per
        mile.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     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}.]
        [1913 Webster]
  
     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.
        [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  mileage
       n 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
  
  

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  MILEAGE. A compensation allowed by law to officers, for their trouble and 
  expenses in travelling on public business. 
       2. The mileage allowed to members of congress, is eight dollars for 
  every twenty miles of estimated distance, by the most usual roads, from his 
  place of residence to the seat of congress, at the commencement and end of 
  every session. Act of Jan. 22, 1818; 3 Story, Laws U. S. 1657. 
       3. In computing mileage the distance by the road usually travelled is 
  that which must be allowed, whether in fact the officer travels a more or 
  less distant way to suit his own convenience. 5 Shepl. R. 431.