car mileage

Noun

car mileage (countable and uncountable, plural car mileages)

1. Car miles collectively.
   • The figures which I submitted at Detroit two years ago, and which were based upon the ton mileage, indicated that the total car mileage for the year 1890, was about 11,878,947,768 miles. Had the whole number of roads reported to the commission for the year 1892, it is fair to assume that the total...1894 July 14, The Railway Review, volume 34, number 28, page 398
   • That the passenger car mileage for the entire system for the year ending June 30th, 1906, was 44,779,961 miles, of which 6,812593 miles or 15.214 per cent., was in the state of Washington.1908, Second and Third Annual Reports of the Railroad Commission of Washington to the Governor, page 282
2. The amount paid by one railroad for the use of cars of another railroad.
   • I need not say to any auditor, or any person who has ever had anything to do with the keeping and returns of car mileage, that if car mileage is properly kept and honestly returned, it would not involve ten per cent (our auditor says five) additional clerical force or time to return each car, over...1876 August 25, “Contributions”, in The Railroad Gazette, page 367
   • Mr. Breed, purchasing agent and president's secretary of the Louisville and Nashville R. R., was called to the chair, and on taking it he said that two years ago last spring the question of individual car mileage was brought up at the Purchasing Agents' Convention. He stated that the keeping of the...1878 January, “General Railway Information”, in Travelers’ Official Railway Guide for the United States and Canada, page xxxiv
3. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see car, mileage. The number of miles that a car (or a similar vehicle) drives.
   • The ratio of average annual truck mileage to passenger car mileage is therefore 1.23.1940, United States. Office of Federal Coordinator of Transportation, Public Aids to Transportation, page 130
   • It is our experience and our belief, based upon our studies, that with proper tire care, and we mean the kind of care that is available through tire-service stations but which the owner has not heretofore found necessary because he had unlimited supplies of new rubber available, will increase the...1942, Problems of American Small Business - Parts 1-9, page 460