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- noun Plural form of
util .
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Examples
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That way, people (like you, perhaps?) who gain "utils" by spending other folks 'money on poor foreigners could feel smug, and the rest of us wouldn't have to suffer so many externalities.
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For that reason, I want the tax code to be progressive becuase the cost in utils of paying tax is lower for the well off.
Matthew Yglesias » Making Consumption Taxes More Progressive 2010
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This well-being, they argue, can be measured in "utils" - the universal unit of the liberal world.
GlobalResearch.ca 2009
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Tracker-utils are installed and tracker itself works with its primitive inflexible * foo* AND * bar* seach, but it is not possible to even set the path to start from in that oversimplified tracker GUI.
Catfish Searches Your Linux Desktop | Lifehacker Australia 2009
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The putative reason for the charitable-donation tax deduction is to encourage "donors" to buy their utils from organizations which will funnel a portion of the money into altruism.
Taxes vs. Philanthropy, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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If you were to assign "util" happiness values to these three states, using "0" as the "stage zero" pre-phone state, they would be, say, Stage 1 is 2 utils, Stage 2 is 1 util, and stage 3 is 0 utils.
Happiness Police, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Tracker-utils are installed and tracker itself works with its primitive inflexible *foo* AND *bar* seach, but it is not possible to even set the path to start from in that oversimplified tracker GUI.
Catfish Searches Your Linux Desktop | Lifehacker Australia 2009
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I use the shot hand of “cost/benefit” analysis because we tend to measure things in dollars, but if you prefer, you could think of it in terms of a made of medium, such as “utils” measures of utility.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Is Gov. Perry Covering Up the Execution of an Innocent Man? 2009
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I use the shot hand of “cost/benefit” analysis because we tend to measure things in dollars, but if you prefer, you could think of it in terms of a made of medium, such as “utils” measures of utility.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Is Gov. Perry Covering Up the Execution of an Innocent Man? 2009
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Any prediction about the effects of immigration on immigrants' or natives' utils, much less their incomes must be calibrated to the quantity and rate of immigration proposed.
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