UTILITY
Definition:
- [noun] a company that performs a public service; subject to government regulation
Synonyms: public public-service corporation
- [noun] the quality of being of practical use
Synonyms: usefulness
- [noun] the service provided by a utility company; "the cost of utilities never decreases"
- [noun] (economics) a measure that is to be maximized in any situation involving choice
- [noun] (computer science) a program designed for general support of the processes of a computer; "a computer system provides utility programs to perform the tasks needed by most users"
Synonyms: program, service program
- [noun] a facility composed of one or more pieces of equipment connected to or part of a structure and designed to provide a service such as heat or electricity or water or sewage disposal; "the price of the house included all utilities"
- [adjective] used of beef; usable but inferior
Synonyms: -grade
- [adjective] capable of substituting in any of several positions on a team; "a utility infielder"
Synonyms: substitute
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Related Words:
- telephone company, telephone service, phone company, phone service, telco
- power company, power service, electric company, light company
- water company, waterworks
- gas company, gas service
- bus company, bus service
- detergency, detergence
- function, purpose, role, use
- helpfulness
- use
- serviceability, serviceableness, usableness
- instrumentality
- practicality
- practicability, practicableness
- marginal utility
- driver, device driver
- diagnostic program
- input program
- output program
- sort program, sorting program
- trace program
- electrical system, electrical plant
- heating system, heating plant, heating, heat
- plumbing, plumbing system
