electric outlet

Questions about electric outlet

What does electric outlet mean?

electric outlet means "receptacle providing a place in a wiring system where current can be taken to run electrical devices".

What is another word for electric outlet?

Close synonyms include wall socket, wall plug, electrical outlet, outlet, electric receptacle. 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 outlet a common word?

electric outlet 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.