Mileage

Alternative forms

• milage

Full definition of mileage

Noun

1. the total distance, in miles, travelled
2. the number of miles travelled by a vehicle on a certain volume of fuel
3. mileage allowance, 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 futureThis 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 considerationThere's some mileage in your argument.