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

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

quality - an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone; "the quality of mercy is not strained"--Shakespeare

detergence, detergency - detergent quality; the quality of having cleansing power

function, purpose, role, use - what something is used for; "the function of an auger is to bore holes"; "ballet is beautiful but what use is it?"

helpfulness - the property of providing useful assistance

use - a particular service; "he put his knowledge to good use"; "patrons have their uses"

serviceability, serviceableness, usableness - the quality of being able to provide good service

instrumentality - the quality of being instrumental for some purpose

practicality - concerned with actual use rather than theoretical possibilities

practicability, practicableness - the quality of being usable

service - work done by one person or group that benefits another; "budget separately for goods and services"

economic science, economics, political economy - the branch of social science that deals with the production and distribution and consumption of goods and services and their management

system of measurement, metric - a system of related measures that facilitates the quantification of some particular characteristic

marginal utility - (economics) the amount that utility increases with an increase of one unit of an economic good or service

computer science, computing - the branch of engineering science that studies (with the aid of computers) computable processes and structures

computer program, computer programme, program, programme - (computer science) a sequence of instructions that a computer can interpret and execute; "the program required several hundred lines of code"

device driver, driver - (computer science) a program that determines how a computer will communicate with a peripheral device

diagnostic program - a program that recognizes and explains faults in the equipment or mistakes in a computer program

input program - a utility program that organizes the input to a computer

output program - a utility program that organizes the output of a computer

sort program, sorting program - a utility program that sorts data items

trace program - a utility program that exhibits the sequence and results of executing the instructions in another program

service routine, utility routine - a routine that can be used as needed

electrical plant, electrical system - utility that provides electricity

facility, installation - a building or place that provides a particular service or is used for a particular industry; "the assembly plant is an enormous facility"

heating plant, heating system, heating, heat - utility to warm a building; "the heating system wasn't working"; "they have radiant heating"

plumbing, plumbing system - utility consisting of the pipes and fixtures for the distribution of water or gas in a building and for the disposal of sewage

inferior - of low or inferior quality

secondary - of second rank or importance or value; not direct or immediate; "the stone will be hauled to a secondary crusher"; "a secondary source"; "a secondary issue"; "secondary streams"