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utility, in economics: see value value, in economics, worth of a commodity in terms of other commodities, or in terms of money (see price ). Value depends on both desirability and scarcity. The marginal theory of value, pioneered in the late 19th cent. ..... Click the link for more information. . utility(1) See utility program. utility 1. a. a public service, such as the bus system; public utility b. (as modifier): utility vehicle 2. Economics a. the ability of a commodity to satisfy human wants b. the amount of such satisfaction 3. Austral and NZ a small truck with an open body and low sides, often with a removable tarpaulin cover; pick-up 4. a piece of computer software designed for a routine task, such as examining or copying files How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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There's your law of precedents; there's your utility of traditions; there's the story of your obstinate survival of old beliefs never bottomed on the earth, and now not even hovering in the air For which reason a mutual utility and friendship may subsist between the master and the slave, I mean when they are placed by nature in that relation to each other, for the contrary takes place amongst those who are reduced to slavery by the law, or by conquest. Here, then, is one difficulty in our law about women, which we may say that we have now escaped; the wave has not swallowed us up alive for enacting that the guardians of either sex should have all their pursuits in common; to the utility and also to the possibility of this arrangement the consistency of the argument with itself bears witness. |
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