utility room

noun

1. a room, especially in a house, reserved for the furnace, washing machine, and other appliances.

utility room

noun

1. a room with equipment for domestic work like washing and ironing

Example Sentences

Carbon monoxide concentrations greater than 4,000 parts per million were recorded inside the utility room, and concentrations greater than 1,000 ppm were recorded in one of the bedrooms.

From Seattle Times

“What I told Juno is that Dot is not a large person, she’s not a ninja, but what she has is an active imagination. She has an ability to be creative in her thinking under extreme pressure. There is a kind of ‘Home Alone’ or even ‘Die Hard’ quality to the show at times as this woman, who you see is outnumbered and seemingly with no options, but it’s amazing what she can find in the kitchen or the utility room to fend off some attackers.

From Los Angeles Times

Inside a darkened utility room off his family’s home, 55-year-old Arturo González was dead, his limbs stiff and his head resting on an ironing board that appeared to have caught his fall as he collapsed.

From Los Angeles Times

These are dense minutes, weirdly polite and surreal, but once these three players move to an unused utility room devoid of furniture, we soon realize “Reality” won’t be constrained by the play-by-play of a just-the-facts-ma’am procedural, or conversely by foregrounding itself as a politically driven account about a whistleblower wronged by a venal, shady administration.

From Los Angeles Times

At some point in the late morning, she also murdered Betty Gore, the mother of that friend, striking her with an ax 41 times in the utility room of the Gore home.

From New York Times