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PUBLIC UTILITY COMPANY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does public utility company mean? 

PUBLIC UTILITY COMPANY (noun)
  The noun PUBLIC UTILITY COMPANY has 1 sense:

1. a company that performs a public service; subject to government regulationplay

  Familiarity information: PUBLIC UTILITY COMPANY used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


PUBLIC UTILITY COMPANY (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A company that performs a public service; subject to government regulation

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

public-service corporation; public utility; public utility company; utility

Hypernyms ("public utility company" is a kind of...):

service (a company or agency that performs a public service; subject to government regulation)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "public utility company"):

phone company; phone service; telco; telephone company; telephone service (a public utility that provides telephone service)

electric company; light company; power company; power service (a public utility that provides electricity)

water company; waterworks (a public utility that provides water)

gas company; gas service (a public utility that provides gas)

bus company; bus service (a public utility providing local transportation)


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