electric receptacle

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   receptacle providing a place in a wiring system where current can be taken to run electrical devices

   Synonymswall socketwall plugelectric outletelectrical outletoutlet

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Questions about electric receptacle

What does electric receptacle mean?

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

What is another word for electric receptacle?

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

electric receptacle 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.