a program for carrying out routine tasks, such as examining or copying files
utility program in American English
noun
Computing
system software used to perform standard operations, as sorting data or copying data from one file to another, for application programs or other system software
Also: utility
Word origin
[1960–65]This word is first recorded in the period 1960–65. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: Pap test, bicycle kick, deinstitutionalize, go-go, parvovirus