Synonym: public utility, public utility company, public-service corporation, service program, substitute, usefulness, utility program, utility, utility-grade. Similar words: utilize, ability, facility, stability, liability, capability, disability, credibility. Meaning: [juː'tɪlətɪ] 
n. 1. a company that performs a public service; subject to government regulation 2. the quality of being of practical use 3. the service (electric power or water or transportation) provided by a public utility 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 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. adj. 1. used of beef; usable but inferior 2. capable of substituting in any of several positions on a team.
n. 1. a company that performs a public service; subject to government regulation 2. the quality of being of practical use 3. the service (electric power or water or transportation) provided by a public utility 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 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. adj. 1. used of beef; usable but inferior 2. capable of substituting in any of several positions on a team. 
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31. Pareto is in no doubt that the two types of utility, for and of a community, do not necessarily coincide.
32. Utility officials estimated that 17,000 customers in the Seattle area were without power.
33. On the ground floor one bay would serve as an entrance and utility room, with a stair to the first floor.
34. They are a utility like gas, and they conform to the elemental principles of accountancy.
35. The largest IPO of the year may be electrical utility Enel SpA, which the government hopes to spin off.
36. A high-technology firm, for example, faces a great deal more business risk than does an electric utility.
37. The program includes brochures, direct mail, television and radio ads, utility bill inserts and the live-operator call center.
38. The idea is that managers derive utility from spending the company's funds to an extent beyond that necessary for profit maximisation.
39. To reassure investors, some utilities have taken to selling bonds with insurance, once an unusual tactic for utility bonds.
40. Bureaucrats have been included among the utility maximizing groups within the political arena.
41. Ford announced that it has increased production to meet demand for its new range of sports utility vehicle.
42. Both Raytheon and the utility declined to disclose financial terms.
43. Fashion workwear, the authentic, hard-wearing utility stuff, is not about to go away.
44. The methods available are constantly increasing in number and their utility is greater as the complexity of contemporary processes is revealed.
45. Reason and utility were the pass-words to the new heaven on earth, and Jeremy Bentham was its prophet.
46. Are the kitchen and utility room large enough to take your washing machine, dryer, freezer, refrigerator, etc?
47. Indeed, the real test will come this spring, in a series of key decisions by the Texas Public Utility Commission.
48. This utility allows you to alter images in such a way as to produce the best possible hard copy from your printer.
49. The work of Ptolemy thus took on immense value because of its utility.
50. They put the device on 200 pennants suspended from utility poles, and paint it directly on crosswalks in the downtown area.
51. A further example is the critique by Baudrillard of utility as privileged signified, which was noted in chapter 3.
52. So utility in information media is not some absolute fact of human experience.
53. Their utility in servicing traffic from Earth to the asteroid belt is, however[sentencedict.com], dubious.
54. Plus the most significant restyling since the Cherokee debuted as a compact sport utility vehicle in 1984.
55. After its experience with the disease, the public utility company issued an AIDS-specific policy statement and set of guidelines.
56. In 1895, the city built the first and only municipally-owned electric utility in Orange County.
57. And in the long run the improvisation of a constitutional structure on the basis of currently perceived utility will be disastrous.
58. Utility companies, under government regulation,[http://sentencedict.com] might do a better job of keeping the air clean.
59. In 1994, a jury awarded him more than half a million dollars for wrongful termination from the utility in 1990.
60. Modern technology appears in the form of military hardware and training of limited utility to the country.
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