electric cord

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   a light insulated conductor for household use

   Synonymscord

   Broaderconductor

   Narrowerextension cordpower cord

Questions about electric cord

What does electric cord mean?

electric cord means "a light insulated conductor for household use".

What is another word for electric cord?

Close synonyms include cord. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is electric cord a common word?

electric cord is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.