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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61. Two years ago, the Public Utility Commission instituted a program allowing residents to choose their electricity supplier.
62. Utility officials said the blackout was unrelated to small power failures in San Francisco neighborhoods Monday and Tuesday.
63. This utility serves no useful purpose at all, but it's great fun.
64. Does this enable the court to take into account the comparative social utility of the product and apply a cost-benefit analysis?
65. Gas utility companies fell after the government said it was considering allowing non-gas companies to enter the retail gas market.
66. The ethnological work construct is designed to enhance the utility of the mode of production notion.
67. Given diminishing marginal utility of income, more income in one period can not compensate for lower income in another period.
68. The utility for example, performed only marginally better at differentiating among customer needs while optimizing its own economics.
69. A criterion of instant and obvious utility can not be the sole criterion for the inclusion of items in the school curriculum.
70. A more detailed examination of the utility oil stream will be made in Section 10. 2.
71. He almost ran down the hall, through the kitchen and into the little utility room that had once been a scullery.
72. However many of the considerations which apply to small utility boilers are directly applicable to large industrial boilers.
73. Many of its workers and functions were of marginal utility and at the cost of a better price to cocoa farmers.
74. Nevertheless, utility bonds are one of the few Southeastern sectors priced below national levels.
75. Churn or utility brush: A short handled, stiff bristled brush shaped for use in awkward areas and for general cleaning.
76. Ninth-century users had their own criteria of utility, and they preferred to use oral alongside written communications in most contexts.
77. The complicated tariff system loosely based on distance, bandwidth and utility will be replaced by simpler mechanisms.
78. The empirical investigations of Modigliani and Miller 2 were conducted on examples of oil and electric utility companies.
79. It is not a family Bible but is inscribed on the flyleaf in the utility hand of a servant.
80. By then, the Republicans were deeply divided on the utility of continuing the fight.
81. Also, utility stocks with their ample dividend yields tend to attract investor attention when rates are low elsewhere.
82. Definition: Consumption can be regarded as total expenditure by households on goods and services which yield utility in the current period.
83. Figure 15-3 shows that at the equilibrium point E the marginal utility of the last film equals its marginal cost.
84. The kitchen was like a big utility room with a huge sink, a stone floor, and a large wooden table.
85. He would also exhort his children to read it, and laid great stress upon the utility of information.
86. Their utility functions may remain unchanged, but the income constraints which now confront them have altered.
87. Buyers of the Ford Bronco utility vehicle will be entitled to a $ 2, 000 rebate.
88. Good for utility lawns and keeping rough grass under control.
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89. The utility model relates to a tricycle frame.
90. Example: customers meter reading of utility company.
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