Utility Definition

yo͝o-tĭlĭ-tē
utilities
noun
utilities
The quality or property of being useful; usefulness.
Webster's New World
Something useful.
Webster's New World
A public utility.
American Heritage
A company or government agency providing a public service such as electric power, gas, water, telephone, etc.
Webster's New World
Shares of stock in such a company.
Webster's New World
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adjective
Used, serving, or working in several capacities as needed, especially:
American Heritage
Serving or designed for practical use with little or no attention to beauty.
Webster's New World
Useful or used in a number of ways.
Webster's New World
Designating an auxiliary player who is able to substitute at any of several positions on a baseball team.
A utility infielder.
Webster's New World
Raised or kept for the production of a farm product rather than for show or as pets.
Utility livestock.
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Other Word Forms of Utility

Noun

Singular:
utility
Plural:
utilities

Origin of Utility

  • Middle English utilite from Old French from Latin ūtilitās from ūtilis useful from ūtī to use

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Old French utilitet (“usefulness") (Modern French utilité), ultimately from Latin uti (“to use, enjoy").

    From Wiktionary

Utility Sentence Examples

  • Going from zero to one puppy might increase your utility a great amount.

  • This increase in utility is the same as generating wealth.

  • Amid the cares of state he found time for works of public utility and for the support of literature and art; he is credited with having sent the first embassy to a Christian power, after the Venetian expedition to Gallipoli in 1416, and the Ottoman navy is first heard of in his reign.

  • Trajan never lacked money to expend on great works of public utility; as a builder, he may fairly be compared with Augustus.

  • When algebra had advanced to the point where exponents were introduced, nothing would be more natural than that their utility as a means of performing multiplications and divisions should be remarked; but it is one of the surprises in the history of science that logarithms were invented as an arithmetical improvement years before their connexion with exponents was known.

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Words Starting With

UUTUTI

Words Ending With

YTYITY

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