noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
public utility
utility pole
utility room
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
big
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The kitchen was like a big utility room with a huge sink, a stone floor, and a large wooden table.
electric
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The empirical investigations of Modigliani and Miller 2 were conducted on examples of oil and electric utility companies.
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The campaign for a deregulated electric utility industry, like a balloon, is filled with a lot of hot air.
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In 1895, the city built the first and only municipally-owned electric utility in Orange County.
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A high-technology firm, for example, faces a great deal more business risk than does an electric utility .
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Transportation, communications, and electric and other utilities are illustrations of industries which are regulated in varying degrees.
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Investments in electric utility stocks were down to 16. 2 percent in December from 21. 2 percent the year earlier.
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Currently, electric utilities only have limited access to power plants outside their service areas.
expected
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The wage is set by the union executive to maximize the expected utility of the median voter.
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But, at least, the agent never makes an inferior choice, never choosing x when y has greater expected utility .
large
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All Bernice could see was a large utility belt with a screamer pistol in a holster and a row of charge packs.
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Three large utility companies -- AT&038;.
local
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At the same time, large corporations are now generating their own power and completely bypassing the formerly dominant local utility .
marginal
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Given diminishing marginal utility of income, more income in one period can not compensate for lower income in another period.
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Alfred Marshall called this marginal utility .
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Many of its workers and functions were of marginal utility and at the cost of a better price to cocoa farmers.
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He compares the price to the marginal utility .
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Figure 15-3 shows that at the equilibrium point E the marginal utility of the last film equals its marginal cost.
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Above Q *; the marginal utility of films is less than the marginal utility of meals sacrificed.
privatised
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It will deliver the promises made in the citizens charter to extend the powers of the four regulators of the privatised utilities .
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To regain majority control of other privatised utilities when funds allow.
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Legislation will be introduced to reinforce the regulation of privatised utilities .
public
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The reporting system covers only a proportion of the chemicals emitted and also exempts many types of plants, including public utilities .
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After its experience with the disease, the public utility company issued an AIDS-specific policy statement and set of guidelines.
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Then again, various public utility undertakings offer important positions to solicitors.
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They were manufacturing, the finance, insurance and real estate group, transportation and public utilities and government.
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The cost of diverting mains services and public utilities can be very expensive and in certain situations virtually impossible.
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Of course, Tucson Water is a public utility , and therefore is required to keep its records open to the public.
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Does it apply to a public utility which may or may not appear to be similar to a local government?
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They thought of them as public utilities .
social
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Does this enable the court to take into account the comparative social utility of the product and apply a cost-benefit analysis?
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Very few students talked about their subject in terms of its social utility .
■ NOUN
bill
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Life on the ship involves no rent checks or utility bills .
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I always mailed my rent check on time, along with my phone and utilities bills .
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That effort raises funds to help low-income households pay their utility bills .
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The program includes brochures, direct mail, television and radio ads, utility bill inserts and the live-operator call center.
company
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Reports prepared by utility companies , often for electricity or pipeline schemes, are mostly satisfactory, however.
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Bob Jones, a supervisor for a utility company , has had a Mac for 12 years.
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Maybe spending by government and utilities companies would be a worthwhile investment.
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After its experience with the disease, the public utility company issued an AIDS-specific policy statement and set of guidelines.
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These include not only central and local government but also major utility companies and transport suppliers.
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Three large utility companies -- AT&038;.
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The empirical investigations of Modigliani and Miller 2 were conducted on examples of oil and electric utility companies .
electricity
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The risk of California's electricity utilities going bankrupt has added to the market's jitters.
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In 1982 electricity utilities cancelled 18 nuclear power stations, some of them well advanced in construction.
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From the start, the operation of commercial nuclear power stations was the responsibility of the electricity utilities .
function
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The situation is simplified if the utility function is homothetic, and that assumption is made in what follows.
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Tastes for variety are assumed to be of the S-D-S form, and the upper tier utility function is Cobb-Douglas.
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Icons-pictorial images used on screen to indicate utility functions , files, folders or applications software.
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Let the upper tier utility function be Cobb-Douglas.
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Their utility functions may remain unchanged, but the income constraints which now confront them have altered.
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What happens when upper tier preferences can not be represented by a Cobb-Douglas utility function ?
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Exercise 10-1 Suppose that everyone has a utility function , where T i denotes taxes paid.
industry
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The campaign for a deregulated electric utility industry , like a balloon, is filled with a lot of hot air.
pole
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They put the device on 200 pennants suspended from utility poles , and paint it directly on crosswalks in the downtown area.
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Crews will install wires on utility poles in some older neighborhoods.
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The system uses microphones that are mounted atop utility poles and buildings to record gunshots and immediately relay a signal to police.
room
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Limited cooking and food storage facilities are, however, available in the utility rooms on each floor.
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The kitchen was like a big utility room with a huge sink, a stone floor, and a large wooden table.
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A separate utility room nearby houses all the noisy domestic appliances.
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I went through to the utility room , cool and dark after the noise and chaos of the kitchen.
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Are the kitchen and utility room large enough to take your washing machine, dryer, freezer, refrigerator, etc?
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He glanced over, shading his eyes, and seemed to see me, looking through the window from the utility room .
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On the ground floor one bay would serve as an entrance and utility room , with a stair to the first floor.
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He almost ran down the hall, through the kitchen and into the little utility room that had once been a scullery.
sport
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Toyota introduced its third generation 4-Runner mid-priced sport utility .
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Ford is offering a $ 2, 000 rebate on its Bronco sport utility vehicle.
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Customers also may have a harder time finding full-size pick-up trucks and certain sport utility vehicles.
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Type: Front-engine, four-wheel drive, nine-passenger, full-size sport utility .
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Type Front-engine, four-wheel-drive, five-passenger, luxury sport utility .
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Many aging enthusiasts began to abandon sports cars for sport utilities .
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It was a sport utility that was also a personal vehicle and it got good mileage.
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So they set out at the beginning of 1997 in four sport utility vehicles.
vehicle
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Ford is offering a $ 2, 000 rebate on its Bronco sport utility vehicle .
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Sport utility vehicles have supplanted minivans in recent years as the top-selling family vehicle, according to trade experts.
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Customers also may have a harder time finding full-size pick-up trucks and certain sport utility vehicles .
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Mr Roberts also confirmed that Ford is launching a full-size sport-utility vehicle this fall called the Expedition.
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Buyers of the Ford Bronco utility vehicle will be entitled to a $ 2, 000 rebate.
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So they set out at the beginning of 1997 in four sport utility vehicles .
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They see even more dollar signs ahead: There are now about 30 models of sport utility vehicles .
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Plus the most significant restyling since the Cherokee debuted as a compact sport utility vehicle in 1984.
water
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The Clinton administration also favors giving loans to water utilities to upgrade their facilities.
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Donahue, 36, is a water utilities supervisor for the city.
■ VERB
include
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Or how many folks' rent includes utilities .
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Bureaucrats have been included among the utility maximizing groups within the political arena.
maximize
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This, presumably one could say, maximizes their utility .
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The wage is set by the union executive to maximize the expected utility of the median voter.
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Consumers maximize utility subject to possible quantity constraints.
provide
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Particularly interesting are the organisations providing utility services: gas, electricity, water and transportation.
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The companies' will explore ways to provide one-stop shopping for utilities that want to automate many of their business functions.
require
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California's Public Utilities Commission issued a temporary restraining order requiring the two utilities to keep serving more than 2 million customers.
sell
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E shareholders, or selling them to utility employees.
use
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You can use the DESQview utility , Manifest, to examine this area to see if it's usable.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Demonstrations allow customers to get an immediate idea of a product's utility .
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I have severe doubts about the utility of examinations on subjects which have been learned parrot-fashion.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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However, other utilities may also bid for PowerGen.
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It was paced by auto, chemical and utility stocks.
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Monopolies in industries like railways and various utilities need breaking up.
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Pareto is in no doubt that the two types of utility , for and of a community, do not necessarily coincide.
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They were manufacturing, the finance, insurance and real estate group, transportation and public utilities and government.