utilities

nounserviceableness

Synonyms for utilities

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Antonyms for utilities

overhead

noun. general, continuing costs of operation

Word Origin & History

late 14c., "fact of being useful," from Old French utilite "usefulness" (late 13c.), earlier utilitet (12c.), from Latin utilitatem (nominative utilitas) "usefulness, serviceableness, profit," from utilis "usable," from uti (see use (v.)). As a shortened form of public utility it is recorded from 1930.

Example Sentences for utilities

She is ballasted with utilities; not altogether with unusable pig-lead and kentledge.

To compare these advantages with the virtues and utilities would be foolish.

It was with this world that the practical affairs and utilities of men were connected.

Teach her all the accomplishments, but none of the utilities of life.

The tendency has been to limit all the utilities of a railroad to transportation.

Thus, the values attached to all utilities are expressed in monetary terms.

But neither happiness nor the utilities that tend to promote it, possess it.

We are surrounded by utilities, but we must stoop to appropriate them.

Scriven explains traffic catastrophies and malfunctionings of utilities.

We want the life of the soul as much as that of the body; whence there are two utilities.

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