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Services vs Utility - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between services and utility

is that services is that which is produced, then traded, bought or sold, then finally consumed and consists of an action or work while utility is the state or condition of being useful; usefulness.

services

English

Noun

(head)
  • (business, economics) That which is produced, then traded, bought or sold, then finally consumed and consists of an action or work.
  • Antonyms

    * goods * capital ----

    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