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Defenition of the word utility

    • Defenition of the word utility

      • An enterprise concerned with the provision to the public of essentials, such as electricity or water. (Source: CED)
      • The ability of a commodity to satisfy needs or wants.
      • the service provided by a utility company; "the cost of utilities never decreases"
      • a unit 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 light or water or sewage_disposal: "the price of the house included all utilities"
      • a company that performs a public service; subject to government regulation
      • capable of substituting in any of several positions on a team; "a utility infielder"
      • the quality of being of practical use
      • used of beef; usable but inferior
      • (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"
      • 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"
      • (economics) a measure that is to be maximized in any situation involving choice
      • the service (electric power or water or transportation) provided by a public utility
      • 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
      • (computer science) a program designed for general support of the processes of a computer
      • capable of substituting in any of several positions on a team

    Synonyms for the word utility

      • advantage
      • benefit
      • convenience
      • effectiveness
      • efficacy
      • function
      • helpfulness
      • public utility
      • public-service corporation
      • service
      • service program
      • substitute
      • usefulness
      • utility program
      • utility-grade
      • value

    Similar words in the utility

      • inferior
      • secondary
      • utility
      • utility's

    Meronymys for the word utility

      • service routine
      • utility routine

    Hyponyms for the word utility

      • bus company
      • bus service
      • detergence
      • detergency
      • device driver
      • diagnostic program
      • driver
      • electric company
      • electrical plant
      • electrical system
      • function
      • gas company
      • gas service
      • heat
      • heating
      • heating plant
      • heating system
      • helpfulness
      • input program
      • instrumentality
      • light company
      • marginal utility
      • output program
      • phone company
      • phone service
      • plumbing
      • plumbing system
      • power company
      • power service
      • practicability
      • practicableness
      • practicality
      • purpose
      • role
      • serviceability
      • serviceableness
      • sort program
      • sorting program
      • telco
      • telephone company
      • telephone service
      • trace program
      • usability
      • usableness
      • use
      • useableness
      • water company
      • waterworks

    Hypernyms for the word utility

      • computer program
      • computer programme
      • facility
      • installation
      • metric
      • program
      • programme
      • quality
      • service
      • system of measurement

    Antonyms for the word utility

      • inutility
      • unusefulness
      • uselessness

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