Synonyms:
utility, public_utility, public_utility_company, public-service_corporation
Meaning: a company that performs a public service; subject to government regulation
Synonyms:
utility, usefulness
Meaning: the quality of being of practical use
Synonyms:
utility
Meaning: the service (electric power or water or transportation) provided by a public utility; "the cost of utilities never decreases"; "all the utilities were lost after the hurricane"
Usage examples
The answer is determined by the balance of utility and disutility.
It will greatly increase the expense of our courts or else greatly diminish their utility.
If public utility had interfered, that forest--the only one for miles around--would still be standing.
Utility varies not only according to the kinds of good, but according to the varying quantities of each.
The rich are not at ease in spending their wealth only on themselves, and lavish it on works of public utility.
The second question is that of knowing what is the role, the utility, and the efficacity of the psychical phenomenon.
Among the objects of public utility which magic may be employed to secure, the most essential is an adequate supply of food.
But the business was fortunately small at the outset, until the new device, patronized chiefly by lottery-men, had proved its utility.
He can bring things together and they produce the result. Further, it may be said that nearly every kind of utility is conditioned on motion.
But, it is said, expropriation on the ground of public utility is only an exception which confirms the principle, and bears testimony in favor of the right.