wire

Faulty wiring, say, or an unattended pot left on the stove.

Under the plea deal, prosecutors dropped other charges against Lira, including eight counts of wire fraud as well as two false statement charges.

Ragoravich is predictably oleaginous, a man with a file cabinet full of hidden agendas, but he is charmingly persuasive, and the money has already been wired into Maggie’s account.

The drywall crew shows up but can’t do anything until the electrician runs the wiring.

It looks like a spaceship has landed on the North Yorkshire moors, surrounded by sheep, an electrified perimeter fence and razor wire.