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Utilities get out of the way. Can you imagine if you flipped a light switch and had to watch an ad before you got electricity? Can you imagine if you turned on a faucet and had to watch an ad before the water came out?
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Meaning of "utilities" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF UTILITIES

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF UTILITIES

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Utilities is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES UTILITIES MEAN IN ENGLISH?

utilities

Public utility

A public utility is an organization that maintains the infrastructure for a public service. Public utilities are subject to forms of public control and regulation ranging from local community-based groups to state-wide government monopolies. The term utilities can also refer to the set of services provided by these organizations consumed by the public: electricity, natural gas, water, and sewage. Telephone services may occasionally be included within the definition.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE UTILITIES

utilidor
utilisable
utiliser
utilitarian
utilitarianise
utilitarianism
utilitarianize
utility
utility company
utility function
utility man
utility player
utility program
utility room
utility software
utility truck
utility vehicle
utility wear
utilizable
utilization

WORDS THAT END LIKE UTILITIES

abilities
activities
amenities
authorities
capabilities
celebrities
cities
communities
disabilities
entities
facilities
humanities
minorities
opportunities
parties
possibilities
qualities
quantities
responsibilities
securities
universities

Synonyms and antonyms of utilities in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «UTILITIES»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «utilities» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of utilities

Translation of «utilities» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF UTILITIES

Find out the translation of utilities to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of utilities from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «utilities» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

公用事业
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

utilidades
570 millions of speakers

English

utilities
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

उपयोगिताओं
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

المرافق
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

коммунальные
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

utilitários
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

ইউটিলিটি
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

les services publics
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Utiliti
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Versorgungsunternehmen
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

公益事業
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

유틸리티
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Utilities
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

tiện ích
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

பயன்பாடுகள்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

उपयुक्तता
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

araçlar
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

utilità
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

narzędzia
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

комунальні
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

utilitati
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

κοινής ωφέλειας
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

utilities
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

verktyg
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

verktøy
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of utilities

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «UTILITIES»

The term «utilities» is very widely used and occupies the 3.560 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «UTILITIES» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «utilities» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «utilities» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about utilities

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8 QUOTES WITH «UTILITIES»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word utilities.
1
Gray Davis
Here is my general approach to the energy companies. You have already charged the utilities a 50 percent credit penalty for the power they were buying from you. You're charging us a penalty. You're not going to get two bites of the apple here.
2
Gray Davis
Well, there's no question that the law passed in 1996 was flawed. It deregulated the wholesale market, meaning the price that the utilities had to pay energy companies for power, but not the retail market.
3
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.
4
Wilson Greatbatch
Nearly all of our existing power sources are generators which use a heat cycle. This includes our coal, oil, and gas fired utilities, our automobiles, trucks, and trains, and even our nuclear fission utility power plants.
5
Lynn Jurich
Rooftop solar is the first true form of competition that utilities have ever faced, and that is why they're attacking it.
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Jan Koum
Utilities get out of the way. Can you imagine if you flipped a light switch and had to watch an ad before you got electricity? Can you imagine if you turned on a faucet and had to watch an ad before the water came out?
7
Kenneth Lay
I mean, our primary businesses in wholesale pipelines, utilities, retail, were all doing extremely well.
8
Elizabeth Wurtzel
The American Dream, coupled with government subsidies of utilities and cheap consumer goods courtesy of slave labour somewhere else, has kept the poor huddled masses from rising up.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «UTILITIES»

Discover the use of utilities in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to utilities and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Privatization, Restructuring, and Regulation of Network ...
David Newbery argues that network utilities pose special problems of ownership and regulation.
David M. Newberry, 2002
2
Public Utilities: Management Challenges for the 21st Century
What makes this book uniquely valuable is his addressing the variety of utility management responsibilities including human resources, information services, and strategic planning in a single volume. I recommend it highly.
David E. McNabb, 2005
3
Winery Utilities: Planning, Design and Operation
Reprint of Winery Utilities: Planning, Design and Operation. This is the first reference to integrate the basic planning, design and operational function of the many support systems that make a winery operate successfully.
David R. Storm, 2000
4
Accounting for Public Utilities
Highlights include: • Discussion of ratemaking concepts, including styles of ratemaking, determining utility rate base, cost allocations and normalization • Analysis of regulatory accounting and reporting requirements • Explanation of ...
Robert L. Hahne, Gregory E. Aliff, 2013
5
Empowering Electric and Gas Utilities with GIS
Empowering Electric and Gas Utilities with GIS is for utility executives, operations and technology managers, and financial officers.
Bill Meehan, 2007
6
Performance Measurement and Regulation of Network Utilities
This book explores the important role that economic performance measurement is playing in the regulation of network utilities in many countries today.
Tim Coelli, Denis Anthony Lawrence, 2006
7
Understanding Electric Utilities and De-Regulation
The book begins by broadly surveying the industry, from a regulated utility structure to the major concepts of de-regulation to the history of electricity, the technical aspects, and the business of power.
H. Lee Willis, Lorrin Philipson, 2005
8
World Statistics on Mining and Utilities
World Statistics on Mining and Utilities provides a unique biennial overview of the role of mining and utility activities in the world economy.
UNIDO., 2012
9
Risk Management for Water and Wastewater Utilities
As part of a move towards a more strategic, forward looking approach to utility management, the IWA is promoting a risk-based approach to water utility management, from catchment to tap, through the implementation of the Bonn Charter (2004) ...
Simon Pollard, 2008
10
Regulatory Reform of Public Utilities: The Japanese Experience
This informative book will prove invaluable to postgraduate students, policymakers, and researchers in fields such as regulation, empirical industrial organization, and public policy.
Fumitoshi Mizutani, 2012

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «UTILITIES»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term utilities is used in the context of the following news items.
1
South Dakota Public Utilities Commission hearing process on …
PIERRE, S.D. – The state Public Utilities Commission is considering whether to approve for the second time in just over five years construction of the South ... «Fox Business, Jul 15»
2
California regulator fines Uber millions of dollars
The California Public Utilities Commission, a regulatory agency that oversees California privately owned public utilities as well as ride-sharing services, fined the ... «Fortune, Jul 15»
3
Electricity rate hike approved by California Public Utilities
Utilities have long complained that the steeply-tiered system means higher-use households have unfairly subsidized low-use households for years. They say ... «abc7news.com, Jul 15»
4
Lawmakers Limit What Utilities Can Recover In Monthly Fee
Included is language to cap what costs utilities could recover through customers' fixed monthly fee, an issue that flared up in a recent Eversource energy rate ... «Hartford Courant, Jun 15»
5
SF ad campaign makes water conservation sexy
On Tuesday, the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission announced it's throwing another $300,000 into its ad blitz as well as a few more racy conservation ... «SFGate, Jun 15»
6
Public Utilities Commission approves Sandpiper pipeline
MINNEAPOLIS - In a 5-0 vote, the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission approved plans for the Sandpiper pipeline project Friday. The proposed project was ... «KARE, Jun 15»
7
Are Electric Utilities Actually Embracing Disruptive Start-Ups?
While electric utilities have large financial interests in the status quo, they also ... Piper publicized that Musk views utilities as his company's biggest customer for ... «Benzinga, May 15»
8
The biggest barrier to Apple and Google's clean power plans: Utilities
Utilities in regions that have large coal industries — like Duke Energy in North Carolina and Dominion Resources in Virginia — are the biggest obstacles to tech ... «Fortune, May 15»
9
1-in-4 US renters spend half their pay on rent and utilities
More than one-in-four renters must devote at least half of their family income to housing and utilities, according to a new analysis of Census data by Enterprise ... «Business Insider, May 15»
10
Inside the PG&E proposal to build 25000 EV charging stations
Following the December California Public Utilities Commission decision to allow utilities to invest in EV charging infrastructure, Pacific Gas and Electric ... «Utility Dive, Feb 15»

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