Usually means: Essential services provided to public.
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We found 28 dictionaries that define the word public utility:

General (18 matching dictionaries)
  1. public utility: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. public utility: Merriam-Webster
  3. public utility: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. public utility: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. public utility: Collins English Dictionary
  6. public utility: Vocabulary.com
  7. public utility: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. public utility: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. public utility: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. public-utility, public utility: Dictionary.com
  11. Public Utility, Public utility: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. public utility: Rhymezone
  13. public utility: FreeDictionary.org
  14. public utility: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. public utility, utility, public: TheFreeDictionary.com
  16. public utility: Wiktionary

Business (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. public utility: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  3. public utility: Law.com Dictionary
  4. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  6. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  7. public utility, utility, public: Legal dictionary
  8. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. public utility, utility, public: Encyclopedia

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (public utility)

▸ noun:  Synonym of public service.
▸ noun:  An organization that maintains the infrastructure for such a public service.

Similar:
utility, public-service corporation, popular opinion, publick, publification, publique, public comment, telco, phone company, phone service, more...

Opposite:
private enterprise, privatization

Phrases:
public utility company, public electric utility, Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act, Public Utility Vehicle Modernization Program, Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935, more...

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Similar:
utility, public-service corporation, popular opinion, publick, publification, publique, public comment, telco, phone company, phone service, more...

Opposite:
private enterprise, privatization

Phrases:
public utility company, public electric utility, Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act, Public Utility Vehicle Modernization Program, Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935, more...



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