high mileage

collocation in English

meaningsofhighandmileage

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high
adjective
uk
/haɪ/us
/haɪ/
(especially of things that are not living) being a large distance from top to bottom or a long way above the ground, or having the stated distance from top ...
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mileage
noun[U]
uk
/ˈmaɪ.lɪdʒ/us
/ˈmaɪ.lɪdʒ/
the distance that a vehicle has travelled or the distance that it can travel using a particular amount ...
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(Definition ofhighandmileagefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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The increase in taxation on company cars is also bad for business, and will hit representatives who do ahighmileage.
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As it is a taxi, subject tohighmileageand everything that goes with that, he would not purchase it.
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Certainly no one would argue that 12,500 miles was an exceptionallyhighmileage.
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The changes will hit particularly badly sales representatives who work hard and dohighmileage.
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For many salesmen that is ahighmileage.
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Some of them may have had exceptionallyhighmileagebut it is exceptionally high business use which is the point which matters.
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The third group of winners and losers is made up of those who have low andhighmileage.
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Indeed, an employee driving a company car doing ahighmileagewould not want to drive hundreds of miles at the weekend.
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Many old vehicles with suchhighmileageare still in frequent use.
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The first is that local highway authorities which have ahighmileageof roads relative to a small population will lose, some very heavily.
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In the long sea haul the cost is low because of thehighmileageinvolved and that is why we can buy them at prices within our resources.
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Someone who had taken on the car with ahighmileageon the clock and clearly between the point of purchase and resale had clocked it, could be identified.
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Given their comparativelyhighmileage, they would find themselves paying the extra tax on petrol, for which any reduction in vehicle excise duty would not begin to compensate.
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The response that we have received confirms that each year, as a result of this fraudulent practice, many consumers are deceived into buyinghighmileagecars.
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That means that there are proper checks on vehicles to make sure they are safe to do thehighmileagethat is expected of taxis and minicabs.
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