Utility

Noun

 * 1) The state or condition of being useful; usefulness.
 * 2) Something that is useful.
 * 3)  The ability of a commodity to satisfy needs or wants; the satisfaction experienced by the consumer of that commodity.
 * 4)  A service provider, such as an electric company or water company or its securities.
 * 5)  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 tend to be software suites.


 * 1)  The ability to play multiple positions.

Synonyms

 * usefulness, note
 * See also Thesaurus:utility

Adjectives for Utility
respectable; universal; industrial; misconceived; practical; social; ultimate; heartless; essential; vulgar; definite; wide; obvious.

Verbs for Utility
(public utility)

cater to—; charge—with; dance attendance to—; enrich—; govern—; head—; inveigh against—; investigate—; legislate against —; regulate—; tax—; —s amass; —bribes; —s "crack"; —s crack up (colloq.) ; —s facilitate; —s function; —s grind; —s lobby; —s perform; —s profit; —s rule; — serves; —s subserve; —tyrannizes.

Thesaurus
Aktiengesellschaft, account, advantage, advantageousness, aktiebolag, alternate, alternative, appliance, applicability, appropriateness, availability, backup, beneficialness, body corporate, business, business establishment, cartel, chamber of commerce, combine, commercial enterprise, compagnie, company, concern, conglomerate, conglomerate corporation, consolidating company, consortium, convenience, copartnership, corporate body, corporation, counterfeit, diversified corporation, drive, dummy, effectiveness, efficacy, efficiency, engine, enginery, enterprise, equivalent, ersatz, facility, fake, favorableness, firm, fitness, fixture, functionality, helpfulness, holding company, house, imitation, industry, joint-stock association, joint-stock company, machine, machinery, makeshift, mechanical aid, mechanical device, mechanism, mock, motive power, motor, operability, operating company, partnership, phony, pinch, plunderbund, pool, power plant, power source, practicability, practical utility, practicality, profitability, provisional, proxy, public utility, relevance, reserve, secondary, service, serviceability, spare, stock company, stopgap, substitute, syndicate, temporary, tentative, token, trade association, trust, usability, use, usefulness, utilizability, vicarious

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

Translations

 * Czech:
 * Dutch:, handigheid
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian: kasulikkus
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:


 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 有用性
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Slovak:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: användbarhet


 * Dutch:, handigs
 * Finnish: hyödyke, hyötytavara, hyötyesine; työkalu, apuväline
 * French:
 * Italian: ,


 * Japanese: 実用品
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: användbar (adjective)


 * Czech:
 * Dutch:


 * Swedish: användbarhet, lönsamhet


 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: ,
 * Italian: ,


 * Swedish: leverantör, tjänsteleverantör, specific public utilities: vattenverk, kraftverk, värmeverk and other compounds with verk


 * Dutch:, hulpprogramma
 * Japanese: ユーティリティ


 * Swedish: tillämpning, applikation, verktyg