mileage
/ˈmaɪləd͡ʒ/ noun B2- The total distance travelled in miles or in air miles.
- The number of miles travelled by a vehicle on a certain volume of fuel.
- An allowance for travel expenses at a specified rate per mile.
- A fee based on miles of use, as of an automobile or a railroad car.
- 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.
- Something worth taking into consideration. · There’s some mileage in your argument.
- The total number of a person's past sexual encounters.
Plural mileages
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