outlet
/ˈaʊtlɛt/ noun B2- A vent or similar passage to allow the escape of something.
- Something which allows for the release of one's desires. · Jamie found doing martial arts was a great outlet for her stress.
- A river that runs out of a lake.
- A shop that sells the products of a particular manufacturer or supplier.
- A wall-mounted socket connected to an electrical power supply, at which current can be taken to run electrical devices. · I had to move the cupboard to get to the power outlet.
Plural outlets
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Behind them, by another outlet, a group of about twenty persons rushed into the garden with loud exclamations of delight.
His room, like all those on the same floor, had but one outlet to the gallery in the sight of everybody.
Andrea had taken the precaution to leave no traces of his feet in the ashes, but still it was an outlet, and in this light was not to be passed over without serious investigation.
Danglars meditated an escape; but the walls were solid rock, a man was sitting reading at the only outlet to the cell, and behind that man shapes armed with guns continually passed.
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