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engineers

13 definitions • 15 examples
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a person whose job is to design or build machines, engines, or electrical equipment, or things such as roads, railways, or bridges, using scientific principles:
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a person whose job is to repair or control machines, engines, or electrical equipment:

Examples:

The engineer is coming to repair our phone tomorrow morning.
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to arrange cleverly and often secretly for something to happen, especially something that is to your advantage:

Examples:

Left-wing groups engineered a coup against the military government.
I'm trying to engineer a meeting between them.
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a person specially trained to design and build machines, structures, and other things, including bridges, roads, vehicles, and buildings:

Examples:

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An engineer is also a person whose job is to drive railroad trains.
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to plan or do something in a skillful way:
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a person whose job is to design or build machines, engines or electrical equipment, or things such as roads, railways or bridges, using scientific principles:

Examples:

This is high-quality technical consultancy performed by highly trained engineers.
design/mining engineer James Dyson is arguably Britain's best-known design engineer of modern times.
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a person whose job is to repair or control machines, engines or electrical equipment:
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to design and build something using scientific principles:

Examples:

If you tell us the size of the part that you need, we will engineer it to fit.
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to try to arrange for something to happen, usually something complicated or difficult:

Examples:

The more restrictive economic environment comes as part of China's effort to engineer a gradual slowdown of its economic boom.

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