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Utility vs Ratepayer - What's the difference?

utility | ratepayer |

As nouns the difference between utility and ratepayer

is that utility is the state or condition of being useful; usefulness while ratepayer is someone who pays for utility service.

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

    ratepayer

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Someone who pays for utility service
    • The government is supposed to mediate between ratepayers and the power company.

    Related terms

    *ratepaying *taxpayer