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Utility   /jutˈɪləti/   Listen
Utility

noun
1.
A company that performs a public service; subject to government regulation.  Synonyms: public-service corporation, public utility, public utility company.
2.
The quality of being of practical use.  Synonym: usefulness.
3.
The service (electric power or water or transportation) provided by a public utility.  "All the utilities were lost after the hurricane"
4.
(economics) a measure that is to be maximized in any situation involving choice.
5.
(computer science) a program designed for general support of the processes of a computer.  Synonyms: service program, utility program.
6.
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.
adjective
1.
Used of beef; usable but inferior.  Synonym: utility-grade.
2.
Capable of substituting in any of several positions on a team.  Synonym: substitute.



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"Utility" Quotes from Famous Books



... seen with the Russians. They are not so modern in method as the French or Germans, or even the Japanese. Of course, war is the same. The nation at the end will win on the fields, not in the skies. The sky fulfillment is reserved for a better utility than war. But war belongs under the sea.... You will not be suppressed so rigidly with the Russians. You will see the side of the war which will have the most bearing on the future. I do not believe France and Germany are in the ...
— Red Fleece • Will Levington Comfort
... from the parks in that they are established for utility rather than for pleasure. The forests now existing are to be cared for by the government and to be wisely used when lumber is needed. Fires are to be avoided so far as possible, and burned areas are to be replanted with ...
— The Western United States - A Geographical Reader • Harold Wellman Fairbanks
... began to look about him for a wife, and his marriage with the second daughter of M. de Savoie (younger sister of Madame de Bourgogne) was decided upon as an alliance of much honour and importance to M. de Savoie, and, by binding him to her interest, of much utility to France. An extraordinary ambassador (Homodei, brother of the Cardinal of that name) was sent to Turin to sign the contract of marriage, and bring back the new Queen into Spain. He was also appointed her Ecuyer, and the Princesse des Ursins was selected as her 'Camarera Mayor', a very ...
— Marguerite de Navarre - Memoirs of Marguerite de Valois Queen of Navarre • Marguerite de Navarre
... news, I hope we will soon have peace re-established, to our great satisfaction: which, as it's a thing long expected and wished for, will be for the utility of the whole nation; especially to poor me, that has my all engaged,—fond to hear news, and yet ...
— Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 - Volume III. • Mrs. Thomson
... not attempt; and if he strikes out new things, that is still worse. He is fair game for every body's criticism. He builds too high for one, too low for another; is too ornate for this, too plain for that; he sacrifices utility to aesthetics, or aesthetics to utility, and somebody is displeased either way. The duchess has been a sympathizing friend of the architect through this arduous ordeal. She took pleasure and pride in his work, and showed it to me as something in which she ...
— Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands V2 • Harriet Beecher Stowe


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