light company Meaning of "light company"

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Definition(s):

  • (n) a public utility that provides electricity

Usage(s):

  1. Demobilized, he clerked in a bank and for a power light company, wrote poetry which won Poetry Maga zine's Levinson Prize in 1919.
  2. His ability with wire and pliers is not attributable to the fact that he worked for a while with a light company.
  3. Admitted to the bar in 1892, he stepped in to reorganize the town's electric light company which had failed.
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