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• n  a company that performs a public service; subject to government regulation
• n  the quality of being of practical use
• n  the service (electric power or water or transportation) provided by a public utility
• n  (economics) a measure that is to be maximized in any situation involving choice
• n  (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
• n  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
• s  used of beef; usable but inferior
• s  capable of substituting in any of several positions on a team
  a utility infielder

• The pickets, sparked after the utility company cut the building's power in a payment dispute with the ownership, escalated into to legal action.
• We always try to emphasize the utility component.
• FPL, the nation's fourth largest utility, came under heavy criticism after Florida's spate of hurricanes in 2005, which exposed lax attention to maintenance issues like updated .

• public utility
• public utility company
• public-service corporation
• usefulness
• utility program
• service program
• utility-grade
• substitute

• inutility
• uselessness

News & Articles

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• Utility Corp. Declares Monthly Dividend
  Utility Corp. Declares Monthly Dividend
  June 13, 2013 - CNW Group via Yahoo! Finance
• Utility crews working on power restoration, cleanup of wind damage getting underway
  SULLIVAN, Wis. — Utility crews are working to restore power to customers who lost service in a powerful storm that blew through Wisconsin. More than 20,000 We Energies customers were left without service after winds of more than 50 mph caused power lines to go down.
  June 13, 2013 - Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune
• Downed utility poles in Deerfield Twp. cause power outages - NBC40.net
  The storm tore down utility poles in Cumberland County, causing road closures and power outages.
  June 13, 2013 - NBC40 South Jersey

Quotes

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• Joe Barton in The Hill (blog)
  It looks like a ton of LIHEAP money was distributed to con artists who applied under the names of convicts and the dead,said Rep. Joe Barton (R-Texas) in prepared remarks. "Even some people living in million-dollar houses got their utility...
• John Lynch in The Union Leader
  This review should include an assessment of the adequacy of policies and safeguards related to power shut-offs and a determination of whether those policies are being rigorously adhered to by New Hampshire's utility companies,he wrote.