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Provider vs Utility - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between provider and utility

is that provider is one who, or that which, provides a service, commodity, or the means for subsistence while utility is the state or condition of being useful; usefulness.

provider

English

(wikipedia provider)

Noun

(en noun)
  • One who, or that which, provides a service, commodity, or the means for subsistence.

    • Derived terms

    * Internet service provider * health care service provider

    utility

    English

    Noun

    (utilities)
  • The state or condition of being useful; usefulness.
  • Something that is useful.
  • (economics) The ability of a commodity to satisfy needs or wants; the satisfaction experienced by the consumer of that commodity.
  • (business, finance) A service provider, such as an electric company or water company; or , the securities of such a provider.
  • (computing) A software program designed to perform a single task or a small range of tasks, often to help manage and tune computer hardware, an operating system or application software.
    • I've bought a new disk utility that can recover deleted files.
  • (sports) The ability to play multiple positions.

    • Synonyms

    * (state of being useful) usefulness, * See also