Synonyms: utility
Definition: the service (electric power or water or transportation) provided by a public utility
Usage: the cost of utilities never decreases; all the utilities were lost after the hurricane
Similar words: service
Definition: work done by one person or group that benefits another
Usage: budget separately for goods and services
Synonyms: utility
Definition: 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
Usage: the price of the house included all utilities
Similar words: facility, installation
Definition: a building or place that provides a particular service or is used for a particular industry
Usage: the assembly plant is an enormous facility
Synonyms: usefulness, utility
Definition: the quality of being of practical use
Similar words: quality
Definition: an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone
Usage: the quality of mercy is not strained--Shakespeare
Synonyms: utility, utility program, service program
Definition: (computer science) a program designed for general support of the processes of a computer
Usage: a computer system provides utility programs to perform the tasks needed by most users
Similar words: computer program, computer programme, program, programme
Definition: (computer science) a sequence of instructions that a computer can interpret and execute
Usage: the program required several hundred lines of code
Synonyms: public utility, public utility company, public-service corporation, utility
Definition: a company that performs a public service; subject to government regulation
Similar words: service
Definition: a company or agency that performs a public service; subject to government regulation
Synonyms: utility
Definition: (economics) a measure that is to be maximized in any situation involving choice
Similar words: system of measurement, metric
Definition: a system of related measures that facilitates the quantification of some particular characteristic
Synonyms: substitute, utility
Definition: capable of substituting in any of several positions on a team
Usage: a utility infielder
Similar words: secondary
Definition: being of second rank or importance or value; not direct or immediate
Usage: the stone will be hauled to a secondary crusher; a secondary source; a secondary issue; secondary streams
Synonyms: utility, utility-grade
Definition: used of beef; usable but inferior
Similar words: inferior
Definition: of low or inferior quality