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Electric company   /ɪlˈɛktrɪk kˈəmpəni/   Listen
Electric company

noun
1.
A public utility that provides electricity.  Synonyms: light company, power company, power service.






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"Electric company" Quotes from Famous Books



... Society: W. R. Whitney, director of Research Laboratory, General Electric Company, where he has been the moving spirit in the perfection of metallic electric-lamp filaments and the development of wrought tungsten. L. H. Baekeland, founder of the Nepera Chemical Company and ...
— Our Navy in the War • Lawrence Perry

... purchased from the Company a small tract of land just inside the limits of the townsite. Then almost before Mr. Burk knew that it was before them, the town council passed an ordinance granting permission to the Worth Electric Company to place their poles and to stretch wires on the streets of the town, and the first issue of The King's Basin Messenger announced with a great flourish of trumpets that ...
— The Winning of Barbara Worth • Harold B Wright



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