A program designed to perform maintenance work on the system or on system components (for example, a storage backup program, disk and file recovery program, or resource editor).
(Computer science) A program designed for general support of the processes of a computer; SYN. utility, service program.
In computing, a systems program designed to perform a specific task related to the operation of the computer when requested to do so by the computer user. For example, a utility program might be used to complete a screen dump, format a disc, or convert the format of a data file so that it can be accessed by a different applications program.