Mileage | Mean of mileage in English Dictionary

/ˈmaɪlɪʤ/

• Noun
• distance in miles
1. What's the mileage from here to New York? [=how many miles is it from here to New York?]
• distance traveled in miles by a vehicle
1. My old car has a lot of mileage on it. = My old car has racked up a lot of mileage. [=it has been driven for a large number of miles since it was new]
2. a car with high/low mileage
3. The car's rental rate includes unlimited mileage. [=the rate does not increase no matter how far the car is driven]
4. The company pays me a mileage allowance [=an amount of money paid for every mile traveled] when I have to travel for work.
• the average number of miles a vehicle will travel on a gallon of gasoline
1. My new car gets much better mileage than my old one did.
2. good/bad mileage
3. fuel/gas mileage

• benefit or use over a period of time
1. The company has gotten a lot of mileage out of a simple idea.
2. The movie gets a lot of mileage out of an old story.
• useful ability
1. He's not the pitcher he once was, but he still has a lot of mileage left in him. [=he is still able to pitch well; his career as a pitcher is far from finished]