MILEAGE Synonyms: 25 Similar and Opposite Words

mileage

noun

ˈmī-lij

Definition of mileage

as in use

the capacity for being useful for some purpose I bought this dishwasher just last year—there is still a lot of mileage left in it

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Recent Examples of mileage The Town and Country is by far the highest-mileage car in Maruca’s collection, with 180,000 on the clock. — Caleb Jacobs, The Drive, 10 Sep. 2026 One’s mileage will vary depending on generation and experience. — Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 8 Sep. 2026 Between spending hours in the late-summer heat and logging some serious mileage around the grounds, comfort and practicality can take you a long way. — Amanda Le, InStyle, 8 Sep. 2026 And viewers’ mileage will certainly vary with this peculiar, fun little concoction on seclusion, connection and the need to belong that can’t hide its undercurrent of melancholy about the sorry state of a divided world. — Tomris Laffly, Variety, 7 Sep. 2026 See All Example Sentences for mileage

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Noun

At that point, the cost and structure of risk transfer may warrant the same financial analysis leadership applies to debt, capital expenditures and other major cash uses.

— Randy Sadler, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2026
Seat belt use may be considered as part of the broader circumstances surrounding a collision, but general danger is not evidence that this particular crash produced a worse fracture pattern or a worse spinal finding than a belt would have.

— Kaitlyn Gomez, Miami Herald, 15 Sep. 2026

Definition of use

Noun

Even if astronauts never go to Mars, the usefulness of this technique on Earth is clear.

— Keith Cooper, Space.com, 15 Sep. 2026
In the ongoing debate about the usefulness of data centers, or the overwhelming curse of the same, both sides have their arguments.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 9 Sep. 2026

Definition of usefulness

Noun

For decades, Washington strove to align perceptions across theaters, to little avail.

— Kurt M. Campbell, Foreign Affairs, 18 Aug. 2026
After that, when the impossibility of recovering anyone else became clear, Al-Zaharnah and others kept hoping international organizations would convince Israel to allow more construction equipment, but to little avail.

— Bilal Shbeir, Los Angeles Times, 9 July 2026

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