negamile
English
Etymology
Blend of negative + mile. Compare negawatt.
Noun
negamile (plural negamiles)
- A proposed unit of saved travel, equivalent to one mile not travelled.
- 1992, Popular Science (volume 241, number 1, July 1992, page 96)
- [I]nstead of tolls, he talks about negamiles — paying people to stay off the roads, so they needn't be built and mended so much. So far, however, no negamile programs exist […]
- 1999, Paul Hawken, Amory B. Lovins, L. Hunter Lovins, Natural Capitalism: The Next Industrial Revolution (page 281)
- By creating markets in negamiles and negatrips, society could discover what it's worth to pay people to stay off the roads […]
- 1992, Popular Science (volume 241, number 1, July 1992, page 96)
Anagrams
- liegeman