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Old Feb 20, 2016, 6:37 am
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Efrem
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Originally Posted by lhrsfo
The converse story here. I have a vacation home in the USA which we use for holiday lets. I phoned our Manager to say that the plug in the bathroom was broken. He summoned an electrician!
That's his fault, even in the U.S. The thing you need an electrician for would be an outlet, a socket, or something else. A plug, in an electrical context, is a thing with prongs on the end of a cord.

However, over here you'd use that home for vacation rentals.
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