Thesaurus.com
Dictionary.com
Showing results for utility. Search instead for utiliti.
Definitions

utility

[yoo-til-i-tee] / yuˈtɪl ɪ ti /


Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

The update will also shift some allowances from gas to electric utilities, and increase funding for the California Climate Credit, a rebate that appears automatically on people’s utility bills.

From Los Angeles Times • May 30, 2026

Barron’s picked Idacorp stock on May 22, 2025, believing the utility serving some 650,000 retail customers in southern Idaho and eastern Oregon would benefit from population inflow and power-hungry artificial-intelligence data centers.

From Barron's • May 29, 2026

Ms. Hochul warned the mandate could increase upstate utility bills by about $4,000 a year and gasoline prices by $2.23 a gallon.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 28, 2026

NV Energy, the Nevada utility that has supplied roughly 75% of Liberty Utilities’ electricity for the Tahoe region for decades, announced that it will end the arrangement after May 2027.

From MarketWatch • May 27, 2026

Few people would quarrel with the validity or utility of the weak anthropic principle.

From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking




Vocabulary lists containing utility


Vocabulary.com logo
by dictionary.com

Look it up. Learn it forever.

Remember "utility" for good with VocabTrainer. Expand your vocabulary effortlessly with personalized learning tools that adapt to your goals.

Take me to Vocabulary.com