(of a public utility)
1Public Utility Model — ( PUM ) EMS is an ambulance system in which the community retains public control of the ambulance system s capital assets and accounts receivable through direct, accountable daily oversight. It then subcontracts the day to day operations to an… …
2public utility — n: a business organization (as an electric company) performing a public service and subject to special government regulation Merriam Webster’s Dictionary of Law. Merriam Webster. 1996. public utility …
3public utility — public utility, adj. 1. a business enterprise, as a public service corporation, performing an essential public service and regulated by the federal, state, or local government. Cf. utility (def. 3). 2. Usually, public utilities. stocks or bonds… …
4public utility — ➔ utility * * * public utility UK US noun [C, usually plural] COMMERCE ► a company that supplies water, gas, or electricity to people: »Transportation, public utilities and construction accounted for another 14,000 jobs. »public utility… …
5public utility — n. an organization supplying water, electricity, transportation, etc. to the public, operated, usually as a monopoly, by a private corporation under governmental regulation or by the government directly …
6public utility — ► NOUN ▪ an organization supplying the community with electricity, gas, water, or sewerage …
7Public utility — Utilities redirects here. For other uses, see Utility (disambiguation). Public infrastructure Assets and facilities Airports  …
8Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935 — The Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935 (PUHCA) was a law that was passed by the United States Congress to facilitate regulation of electric utilities, by either limiting their operations to a single state, and thus subjecting them to… …
9public utility — A privately owned and operated business whose services are so essential to the general public as to justify the grant of special franchises for the use of public property or of the right of eminent domain, in consideration of which the owners… …
10public utility — noun a company that performs a public service; subject to government regulation (Freq. 1) • Syn: ↑utility, ↑public utility company, ↑public service corporation • Hypernyms: ↑service • Hyponyms …
