EGAVE

utility

Academic Word List, sublist 6.

About 18.40 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun The state or condition of being useful; usefulness.
  2. noun Something that is useful.
  3. noun The ability of a commodity to satisfy needs or wants; the satisfaction experienced by the consumer of that commodity.
  4. noun Well-being, satisfaction, pleasure, or happiness.
  5. noun A commodity or service provided on a continuous basis by a physical infrastructure network, such as electricity, water supply or sewerage.
    The complex includes the usual utilities (gas and electricity) and amenities like wifi and a gym (toilets with toiletries).
  6. noun A natural or legal monopoly distributer of such a utility; or, the securities of such a provider.
  7. noun A software program other than a game; one that is useful or creative rather than merely entertaining.
    a graphics utility; a music utility
  8. noun A software program designed to perform a single task or a small range of tasks, often to help manage and tune computer hardware, an operating system, or application software.
    I've bought a new disk utility that can recover deleted files.

Similar words

usefulness substitute secondary public utility inferior utility program public-service corporation service program utility-grade useful

Often followed by

of and function in is to for functions companies

Word family

utilisation utilise utilised utiliser utilisers utilises utilising utilities utilization utilize

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