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mileage

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CIDE DICTIONARY

mileagen. 
  •  An allowance for traveling expenses at a certain rate per mile.  [1913 Webster]
  •  Aggregate length or distance in miles; esp., the sum of lengths of tracks or wires of a railroad company, telegraph company, etc.  [1913 Webster]
  •  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]
  •  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.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

mileage, n. (also milage)
1 a a number of miles travelled, used, etc. b the number of miles travelled by a vehicle per unit of fuel.
2 travelling expenses (per mile).
3 colloq. benefit, profit, advantage.

THESAURUS

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

ROGET THESAURUS

mileage

Reward

N reward, recompense, remuneration, meed, guerdon, reguerdon, price, indemnity, indemnification, quittance, compensation, reparation, redress, satisfaction, reckoning, acknowledgment, requital, amends, sop, atonement, retribution, consideration, return, quid pro quo, salvage, perquisite, vail, douceur, bribe, hush money, smart money, blackmail, extortion, carcelage, solatium, allowance, salary, stipend, wages, compensation, pay, payment, emolument, tribute, batta, shot, scot, bonus, premium, tip, fee, honorarium, hire, dasturi, dustoori, mileage, crown, remunerative, remuneratory, munerary, compensatory, retributive, reparatory, rewarding, satisfactory, fideli certa merces, honor virtutis praemium, tibi seris tibi metis.

Length

N length, longitude, span, mileage, distance, line, bar, rule, stripe, streak, spoke, radius, lengthening, prolongation, production, protraction, tension, tensure, extension, line, nail, inch, hand, palm, foot, cubit, yard, ell, fathom, rood, pole, furlong, mile, league, chain, link, arpent, handbreadth, jornada, kos, vara, astronomical unit, AU, light- year, parsec, nanometer, nm, micron, micrometer, millimicron, millimeter, mm, centimeter, cm, meter, kilometer, km, pedometer, perambulator, scale, long, longsome, lengthy, wiredrawn, outstretched, lengthened, sesquipedalian, interminable, no end of, macrocolous, linear, lineal, longitudinal, oblong, as long as my arm, as long as today and tomorrow, unshortened &c (shorten), lengthwise, at length, longitudinally, endlong, along, tandem, in a line, in perspective, from end to end, from stem to stern, from head to foot, from the crown of the head to the sole of the foot, from top to toe, fore and aft.


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