Definition of Disutility

1. Noun. uselessness, a lack of utility ¹

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Definition of Disutility

1. [n -TIES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Disutility

disunited
disuniter
disuniters
disunites
disunities
disuniting
disunity
disusage
disusages
disuse
disuse atrophy
disused
disuses
disusing
disutilities
disutility (current term)
disutilize
disutilized
disutilizing
disvaluation
disvaluations
disvalue
disvalued
disvalues
disvaluing
disvantageous
disvelop
disveloped
disventure
disventures

Literary usage of Disutility

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Principles of Economics by Fred Manville Taylor (1921)
"CHAPTER XXVIII THE PRICES OF PRIMARY FACTORS AND disutility Final Price Determination.—In introducing the study of market price, we explained that our ..."

2. Money and Banking: A Discussion of the Principles of Money and Credit, with by Earl Dean Howard, Joseph French Johnson (1904)
"The disutility of Labor Standard. — Closely connected with the labor-cost ... The disutility of labor in production is a different thing in an advanced ..."

3. History and Criticism of the Labor Theory of Value in English Political Economy by Albert Conser Whitaker (1904)
"Beyond a doubt, disutility is associated with value (as "Bedeutung") in some very intimate relation.1 This is, at bottom, the explanation of the remarkable ..."

4. Bisocialism: The Reign of the Man at the Margin by Oliver R. Trowbridge (1903)
"In the United States the real marginal unit of disutility is one cent. Labor that is not of the disutility of one cent either will not be exerted at all, ..."

5. Bisocialism: The Reign of the Man at the Margin by Oliver R. Trowbridge (1903)
"In the United States the real marginal unit of disutility is one cent. Labor that is not of the disutility of one cent either will not be exerted at all, ..."

6. Money; a Study of the Theory of the Medium of Exchange by David Kinley (1904)
"The disutility of Labor Standard. — Closely connected with the labor-cost ... The disutility of labor in production is a different thing in an advanced ..."

7. Principles of Economics by Henry Rogers Seager (1917)
"Value and Marginal Cost or disutility. unit of a good is large or' small depending upon the number of units that are available. ..."

8. Imperial Fiscal Reform by Vincent Henry Penalver Caillard (1903)
"Professor Marshall's definition of price — False cheapness — Professor Nicholson on possible disutility of cheapness—Further illustrations of disutility of ..."

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