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utility definition - legal

n

  1. Some society-benefiting quality.
  2. The ability to form some function.
  3. A business that forms an essential public service and that is often government regulated, such as a public-service utility, electric company, and so on.

Webster's New World Law Dictionary Copyright © 2006 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Hoboken, New Jersey.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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