Princeton's WordNet

1. utility, public utility, public utility company, public-service corporation(noun)

   a company that performs a public service; subject to government regulation

2. utility, usefulness(noun)

   the quality of being of practical use

3. utility(noun)

   the service (electric power or water or transportation) provided by a public utility

   "the cost of utilities never decreases"; "all the utilities were lost after the hurricane"

4. utility(noun)

   (economics) a measure that is to be maximized in any situation involving choice

5. utility program, utility, service program(noun)

   (computer science) a program designed for general support of the processes of a computer

   "a computer system provides utility programs to perform the tasks needed by most users"

6. utility(adj)

   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

   "the price of the house included all utilities"

7. utility(a), utility-grade(adj)

   used of beef; usable but inferior

8. utility(a), substitute(a)(adj)

   capable of substituting in any of several positions on a team

   "a utility infielder"

Wiktionary

1. utility(Noun)

   The ability to play multiple positions.

2. utility(Noun)

   The state or condition of being useful; usefulness.

3. utility(Noun)

   Something that is useful.

4. utility(Noun)

   The ability of a commodity to satisfy needs or wants; the satisfaction experienced by the consumer of that commodity.

5. utility(Noun)

   A service provider, such as an electric company or water company or its securities.

6. utility(Noun)

   A software program specifically designed to help manage and tune the computer hardware, operating system or application software, and perform a single task or a small range of tasks; as opposed to application software which tends to be software suites.

   I've bought a new disk utility that can recover deleted files.

Origin: From utilitet (Modern French utilité), ultimately from uti.

Webster Dictionary

1. Utility(noun)

   the quality or state of being useful; usefulness; production of good; profitableness to some valuable end; as, the utility of manure upon land; the utility of the sciences; the utility of medicines

2. Utility(noun)

   adaptation to satisfy the desires or wants; intrinsic value. See Note under Value, 2

3. Utility(noun)

   happiness; the greatest good, or happiness, of the greatest number, -- the foundation of utilitarianism

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