public utility

Questions about public utility

What does public utility mean?

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

What is another word for public utility?

Close synonyms include utility, public utility company, public-service corporation. 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 utility a common word?

public utility 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.