electrician
noun
elec·tri·cian
i-ˌlek-ˈtri-shən 
ē-
: one who installs, maintains, operates, or repairs electrical equipment
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Many of these roles, from carpenters to electricians, offer the ideal of being your own boss while making good pay.
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Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 29 Oct. 2025
The regime in Tehran believed that, in 1981, the electrician, Mohammad Reza Kolahi—then a student and a member of an Iranian dissident group—had planted a bomb at the Islamic Republican Party’s headquarters, killing seventy-three people.
—Ed Caesar, New Yorker, 20 Oct. 2025
Vought’s father, Thurlow, served in the Marines and worked as an electrician.
—Andy Kroll, ProPublica, 18 Oct. 2025
Financial constraints may force him to push back the procedure and instead take on side work as an electrician.
—Cybele Mayes-Osterman, USA Today, 16 Oct. 2025
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Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 29 Oct. 2025
The regime in Tehran believed that, in 1981, the electrician, Mohammad Reza Kolahi—then a student and a member of an Iranian dissident group—had planted a bomb at the Islamic Republican Party’s headquarters, killing seventy-three people.
—Ed Caesar, New Yorker, 20 Oct. 2025
Vought’s father, Thurlow, served in the Marines and worked as an electrician.
—Andy Kroll, ProPublica, 18 Oct. 2025
Financial constraints may force him to push back the procedure and instead take on side work as an electrician.
—Cybele Mayes-Osterman, USA Today, 16 Oct. 2025
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“Electrician.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/electrician. Accessed 4 Nov. 2025.
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electrician
noun
elec·tri·cian
i-ˌlek-ˈtrish-ən
: a person who installs, operates, or repairs electrical equipment
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