Utility vs Municipal - What's the difference?
utility | municipal |
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.
Of or pertaining to a municipality (a city or a corporation having the right of administering local government).
Of or pertaining to the internal affairs of a nation.
(finance) A financial instrument issued by a municipality.
* {{quote-news, year=2008, date=April 21, author=Julie Connelly, title=Muni Bonds, Safe With High Yields, work=New York Times
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As nouns the difference between utility and municipal
is that utility is the state or condition of being useful; usefulness while municipal is a financial instrument issued by a municipality.As an adjective municipal is
of or pertaining to a municipality (a city or a corporation having the right of administering local government).utility
English
Noun
(utilities)- I've bought a new disk utility that can recover deleted files.
Synonyms
* (state of being useful) usefulness, * See alsomunicipal
English
Adjective
(en adjective)Synonyms
* civicDerived terms
* municipalityNoun
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