Utility vs Accountability - What's the difference?
utility | accountability |
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.
(sports) The ability to play multiple positions.
The state of being accountable; liability to be called on to render an account; accountableness; responsible for; answerable for.
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(military) The obligation imposed by law or lawful order or regulation on an officer or other person for keeping accurate record of property, documents, or funds. The person having this obligation may or may not have actual possession of the property, documents, or funds. Accountability is concerned primarily with records, while responsibility is concerned primarily with custody, care, and safekeeping. (JP 1-02 Department of Defense Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms)
As nouns the difference between utility and accountability
is that utility is the state or condition of being useful; usefulness while accountability is the state of being accountable; liability to be called on to render an account; accountableness; responsible for; answerable for.utility
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Noun
(utilities)- I've bought a new disk utility that can recover deleted files.