public-service corporation

1. 1.

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

   Synonymsutilitypublic utilitypublic utility company

   Broaderservice

   Narrowertelephone companypower companywater companygas companybus company

Questions about public-service corporation

What does public-service corporation mean?

public-service corporation means "a company that performs a public service; subject to government regulation".

What is another word for public-service corporation?

Close synonyms include utility, public utility, public utility company. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is public-service corporation a common word?

public-service corporation is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.