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noun

utility

CEFR B2

a company that performs a public service; subject to government regulation

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Six example sentences with utility, each labelled with its topic.

  • Pension funds buy shares in a utility because the rates it may charge are set years ahead and rarely move.

    Finance

  • The developer waited eight months for the utility to run a new feeder line to the site's western edge.

    Architecture

  • The local utility replaced its coal boilers with a wind and battery mix and halved emissions within three years.

    Environment

  • Because a utility faces no competitor, the commission sets its prices by reviewing its costs line by line.

    Economics

  • The candidate promised to force the utility to bury its power lines, a pledge that won every hillside precinct.

    Politics

  • The utility must file its rate request with the commission and defend every number at a public hearing.

    Law

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