Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. One whose occupation is the installation, maintenance, repair, or operation of electric equipment and circuitry.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. One who studies electricity, and investigates its properties by observation and experiments; one versed in the science of electricity.
- n. One engaged in the business of making or supplying electric apparatus or appliances.
Wiktionary
- n. archaic An investigator of electricity; one versed in the science of electricity.
- n. A tradesman who installs, repairs and maintains electrical wiring and equipment
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. archaic An investigator of electricity; one versed in the science of electricity.
- n. a technician who installs, repairs, or maintains electrical wiring or electrical devices, especially in buildings.
- n. a person who is licensed by a governmental board to install electrical wiring and devices in structures; called also a
licensed electrician .
WordNet 3.0
- n. a person who installs or repairs electrical or telephone lines
Examples
“So yesterday as the electrician is putting the finishing touches on our new outlet on the porch around 2: 30 in the afternoon, I get the kind of call every parent dreads: Hello?”
“Mr. Gaylord, 57, an electrician, is the feminist in the family and supported Mrs. Clinton, while Mrs. Gaylord, 56, an artist, supported Mr. Obama.”
“Also tomorrow, the electrician is coming to install an electrical outlet on the front of the house, so we can put up lights (as we haven't been able to do since we replaced our porch light with a compact fluorescent fixture that doesn't support those screw-in plug adapter thingies we used to use).”
“(Like I think I will hopefully get to enjoy the mirror left at the House of 42 Doors above our beautiful dresser that I love once we get it hung up after the electrician is done ...)”
“I do not believe that your electrician is simply making work but only you will truly know.”
“Unless you or a friend have enough knowledge to know that an electrician is qualified, do not believe a thing they tell you.”
“Since we have two meters, the electrician is going to reroute a couple of fans to the lower use meter.”
“Apparently, he called the electrician over to change all the light bulbs.”
“(Similar thing has happened in past and when I called electrician, he simply pushed some reset switch and that did the trick.”
“I'm a bit of a mechanic, a bit of an electrician, that is to say, a bit of a wizard.”
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