utilities
- 1Plural of utility.
Rising energy costs pushed monthly utilities higher across the region.
Several public utilities merged to cut their operating costs.
Note
The plural mostly names concrete things: electricity, water and sewerage taken together, the companies that supply them, and in finance the securities of those companies, as in investing in utilities. The abstract senses of the singular, usefulness or an economist's measure of satisfaction, rarely pluralize. A sentence about utilities is almost always about services, bills or providers, not about how useful something is.
utilities is a form of utility
utility, noun: A commodity or service supplied continuously through a physical infrastructure network, such as electricity, water, or sewerage. Full entry
- Forms
- utilityutilities plural
- Spelling
- utility → utilities: change y to i, add -es
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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