Maintenance
Maintenance noun - The act or activity of keeping something in an existing and usually satisfactory condition.
Utility and maintenance are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Utility" instead a noun "Maintenance".
Utility
Utility noun - The capacity for being useful for some purpose.
Maintenance and utility are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Maintenance" instead a noun "Utility".
How words are described
Both words in one sentence
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Turned Against Their Masters: Gara/Lara's astromech droid manages to hack the Iron Fist's army of toaster-sized maintenance and utility droids and use them to sabotage the ship's systems.
Source: Comic Book / X-Wing Series -
On flood plains, fully maxed-out farms will provide five food, three energy, one production, and one science, turning them into some of the strongest and most versatile tiles in the game, rivaling Terrascapes in their utility without any of the maintenance cost.
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