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Millage vs Mileage - What's the difference?

millage | mileage |

As nouns the difference between millage and mileage

is that millage is a tax rate on property, expressed in mills of the property's value while mileage is the total distance, in miles, travelled.

millage

Noun

(en noun)
  • A tax rate on property, expressed in mills of the property's value.
  • :Charter townships are able to levy millage on the residents without a vote of the people.
  • *'>citation
  • Alternative forms

    * mill rate

    See also

    * milage * mileage

    References

    * Wikipedia: List of townships in Michigan

    mileage

    Alternative forms

    * milage

    Noun

  • the total distance, in miles, travelled
  • the number of miles travelled by a vehicle on a certain volume of fuel
  • mileage allowance, an allowance for travel expenses at a specified rate per mile
  • (informal) the amount of service that something has yielded or may yield in future
  • This 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.
  • (informal) something worth taking into consideration
  • There's some mileage in your argument.

    See also

    * kilometrage * millage * your mileage may vary