Many kinds of workers, including researchers, electricians, mechanics, and cooks, live at Scott Base.
His suspicious eye saw nothing beyond a busy electrician replacing a switchboard.
If there is any doubt regarding the condition of electric wiring it will be real economy to have a licensed electrician inspect it and replace any which is obsolete or not in accord with insurance regulations.
Once the house was gutted to brick and timber and delirious wood, the plumbers and the electricians came in and laid down their straight shining ducts and pipes and conduit.
Then the electrician opened a switch, and the roar outside diminished and finally ceased.
Then, with the electrician, he strolled over to inspect the remains of the billiard saloon.
electrician| American Dictionary
electrician
noun[C]
us/ɪˌlekˈtrɪʃ·ən/
apersonwho puts in andmaintainswireswhichcarryelectricityinto abuilding
In these places, the electricians often belonged to the circles that included philosophers, political reformers and literary types.
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Even in his tone tests, he used the magic of theelectricianto court human attention to his product.
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Even steamfitters, electricians and plumbers are required to have licenses.
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People are more likely to trust anelectricianwho has been recommended by a friend of a friend whom they know to be reliable.
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Because of this exclusive concession, electricians set up their businesses according to the system of the 'street licence'.
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Gooday also analyses attempts by a number of the wives of electricians to portray electric lighting within the context of domestic aesthetics and household economics.
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Grossberg's worry about the plausibility of "rewiring" seems to apply to the very literal rewiring that might be done by a neuralelectrician.
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The role of such professionals as natural philosophers and supporters of scientific culture is evident from the number of clerical naturalists, meteorologists and electricians in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
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Over 30 chief and other electrical artificers are at present fully qualified for promotion to warrantelectricianand on the roster for promotion.
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These included carpenters and bricklayers, plant operators, electricians, asphalt gang labourers and site staff.
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He may be a plumber,electrician, or fireman who goes window cleaning, gardening, cleaning a car or mending a television set.
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Are the actors, the backstage workers—the electricians and others—engaged in distribution or in carrying out a miscellaneous service?
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There are no fewer than 1,786 men connected with the building industry employed there—electricians, joiners, builders, plumbers, and the rest.
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Among those unemployed are joiners, bricklayers, plasterers, and electricians—all people who build houses.
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I am thinking of all the industries associated with a fishing community—netmakers, ropemakers, joiners, electricians and harbour staff.
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