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mileage|ˈmaɪlɪdʒ|
Also 8 milage.
[f. mile n.1 + -age.]
1. a. A travelling allowance at a fixed rate per mile; spec. U.S. the allowance made to members of Congress to cover the expenses of the journey between their home and the capital.
1754Franklin Place of Union Wks. 1887 II. 345 Members' Pay.—shillings sterling per diem, during their sitting, and milage for travelling expenses. 1776H. Gates in Sparks Corr. Amer. Rev. (1853) I. 281 The militia were promised their mileage and billeting-money. 1888Bryce Amer. Commw. (1890) II. xl. 95 A small allowance, called mileage, for travelling expenses.
b. See quot.
1845McCulloch Taxation ii. vi. (1852) 280 The duty on stage-carriages consists of a licence duty of 3l. 3s. a year, and of a mileage, or duty of so much per mile travelled over, according to the number of passengers the carriage is licensed to carry.
c. A rate per mile charged for the use of railway vehicles carrying goods or passengers over another company's line.
1837Penny Mag. Suppl. 31 Mar. 115/1 Mileage on the whole mail. 1863Great Western Mag. Aug. 74 The Clearing House..will debit each company on the journey with its proper amount of ‘mileage’. 1873Cassell's Mag. VIII. 400/1 As..the Caledonian Company will receive the fares of the passengers, they will be required to pay for the use of the carriages conveying them; in other words the..Company will be charged ‘mileage’. 1926Huebner & Johnson Railroad Freight Service vii. 129 The prevailing rate of mileage paid by one railway to another for the use of foreign cars was three quarters of a cent per car per mile.
2. a. The aggregate number of miles of way made, used or travelled over; extent or distance in miles. Also, rate of travel in miles.
1861Smiles Engineers I. 220 The total mileage of turn⁓pike roads..was about one hundred and eighty miles. 1881Lubbock in Nature No. 618. 412 The present mileage of railways is over 200,000 miles. 1890Spectator 7 June 792 To compute the speed or mileage of quick-moving animals. 1891T. Hardy Tess xliv, As the mileage lessened between her and the spot of her pilgrimage, so did Tess's confidence decrease. 1902Westm. Gaz. 5 Apr. 10/1 There has been a very material decline in the traffic receipts though the mileage run has been practically the same.
b. fig.
1860Russell Diary India I. x. 155 It has been a heavy mileage of neglect for which we have already paid dearly. 1902Daily Chron. 15 Oct. 3/2 A study less common than the mileage of metrical English might lead one to suppose. 1945N. L. McClung Stream runs Fast p. xi, There was good mileage in me yet. 1962L. Deighton Ipcress File xxv. 158 In the Café Budapest..‘kezet csokolom’ (kiss your hand) had given good mileage with the younger waitresses. 1970W. V. Quine Philos. of Logic v. 71 We can still get a little additional mileage by superimposing the virtual theory. 1971Rolling Stone 24 June 36/1 Sam's got mileage that any PR firm might envy: front-page space in both San Francisco dailies,..and wire service coverage. 1971A. Price Alamut Ambush ix. 114 The newspapers had got very fair mileage out of the bomb explosion. 1973Times 5 Feb. 19/5 When..profits began to tumble, the..senior management of the time imagined that there was no more milage in the product. 1973Sci. Amer. Apr. 103/3 Mathematical notions whose foundations have been matters of continuous debate have often yielded the most mileage. 1974T. Allbeury Snowball iii. 14 They'd enjoy stirring up the Canadians, and the French-Canadians would..get a lot of political mileage.
c. attrib.
1869Bradshaw's Railway Manual XXI. 367 Advances are made by the Italian Government, to be made good afterwards out of the mileage subventions promised... The Italian and Pontifical Governments have given mileage guarantees. 1884J. B. Pope Railway Rates 22 They [sc. Railway Companies] shall be allowed to vary or graduate the mileage charges according to distance. 1885H. O. Forbes East. Archipelago 52 Stations..which private travellers can obtain permission to make use of on payment of small mileage dues. 1895Westm. Gaz. 14 May 8/2 The mileage rate of threepence for each first-class passenger. 1908Westm. Gaz. 14 Nov. 15/2 An instrument, made by one of the largest clock-makers in the world,..combines a time⁓piece, mileage recorder, speed indicator [etc.]. 1928C. E. R. Sherrington Econ. Rail Transport Gt. Brit. II. vii. 98 With the coming of the Parliamentary trains,..the equal mileage basis became..stabilized. 1969Observer (Colour Suppl.) 23 Mar. 31/3 The White Car is running on Shell with the mileage ingredient. 1970Motoring Which? Oct. 151/1 Check the mileage recorder—see how long the road test has been. 1971‘J. Ashford’ Bent Copper iv. 34 He left and went out to..his car, a battered Ford, which he ran on a mileage allowance. 1973Radio Times 20–27 Dec. 19/1 (Advt.), Explore Canada for a week with Avis for {pstlg}37·50, with no mileage surcharge. 1975New Yorker 26 May 60 (Advt.), In mileage tests conducted by the Environmental Protection Agency, Seville got 13 miles per gallon in the city test. |