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electrician

[ ih-lek-trish-uhn, ee-lek- ]

noun

  1. a person who installs, operates, maintains, or repairs electric devices or electrical wiring.


electrician

/ ˌiːlɛk-; ɪlɛkˈtrɪʃən /

noun

  1. a person whose occupation is the installation, maintenance, and repair of electrical devices
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of electrician1

An Americanism dating back to 1745–55; electric + -ian
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Example Sentences

This is how every great carpenter, plumber, electrician, and mechanic started out.

They were excited to see the neighbor’s dog and the rickety swing across the street where they used to go with their father, who had worked as an electrician in a nearby factory earning about $250 a month.

Christa Tichy, 57, is a master electrician in Rockville who says her campaign will focus on affordable housing, green energy and support for the Montgomery County Police Department.

Although Greywe trained as an electrician, he had long been restoring VWs before he turned his hobby into a job.

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There’s a lot of skilled work that’s done hands-on — being an electrician, being a plumber, building a home or repairing an engine.

The story of a Texas electrician who deals experimental AIDs drugs only took twenty years to make it to Hollywood.

Ron had told me he had been a commercial electrician in Dallas.

He said he already had his diploma and was studying at a community college to be an electrician.

His son, 38, works as an electrician, and his daughter, 22, works in health care at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center.

A French electrician just unveiled a massive cache of unknown Picassos.

The chief electrician gave a loud cheer, which was repeated by every man on board, from the captain down to his servant.

Expert electrician, mechanic, sport spoiler and bruiser, eh?

I thought he was making an electrician out of me; as a matter of fact, he was making fifty dollars per month out of me.

In the study of such facts and such relations the scientific electrician has before him an almost infinite field of inquiry.

But a French electrician thus describes the occurrence as within his own experience.

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