electrician
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3.2
- noun
- /ɪˌlɛkˈtrɪʃən/
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electricista
- We had the electrician come and install half of the lights here for a plug.
- fixed by the electrician
- plumbers and electricians
- carpenters and electricians
So anyway, I call up my electrician who installed the alarm.
- So anyway, I call up my electrician who installed the alarm.
- Go to trade school, get a vocation, become an electrician, Carpenter, plumber, mechanic.
- Yeah, so I'm I'm in a trade school to be an electrician and I'm in my last quarter.
- OK, Like a like a house with with a bad electrician.
- You've got, you're not like you come out and you go, well, I'm an electrician or I'm a builder.
- He was electrician and then he would do night work.
- And then you just come on, you're an electrician.
Examples
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Eleanor, did you call the electrician?
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So I had an electrician install these little pendants from IKEA.
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About six months into my stay, I tried to get a job as an electrician in the prison.
Academic text (2005) -
So anyway, I call up my electrician who installed the alarm.
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I'll get the electrician to come by this morning and fix the fuse box.
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Yeah, so I'm I'm in a trade school to be an electrician and I'm in my last quarter.
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He was excelling at college and his dreams were to become an electrician and take over the family farm.
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Is the electrician here?
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Ron Ramsey was an apprentice electrician with a stutter and a crush on Holly.
Fiction book (1996) -
I'll get the electrician to come by this morning and fix the fuse box.
Synonyms
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7.5
A person who fixes and installs electric wires and lights
A person who installs or fixes electric cables and equipment in buildings
A person who installs and repairs electric cables and equipment in buildings
A woman who installs and fixes electric wires in buildings
How Skilled
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Electrician comes from electric, which comes from an old Greek word elektron meaning 'amber'. People noticed that rubbing amber made small things stick, an early sign of electricity. The ending -ian means 'person who does', so an electrician is a person who works with electricity.