Etymology

Blend of negative +‎ mileCategory:English blends#NEGAMILE, equivalent to nega- +‎ mileCategory:English terms prefixed with nega-#MILE. Compare negawatt.

Noun

negamile (plural negamiles)Category:English lemmas#NEGAMILECategory:English nouns#NEGAMILECategory:English countable nouns#NEGAMILECategory:English entries with incorrect language header#NEGAMILECategory:Pages with entries#NEGAMILECategory:Pages with 1 entry#NEGAMILE

1. A proposed unit of saved travel, equivalent to one mile not travelled.
   • 1992 July, Popular Science, volume 241, number 1, 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 […]

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   • 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 […]

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