engineernoun [ C ]
uk/ˌen.dʒɪˈnɪər/us/ˌen.dʒɪˈnɪr/A2 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:
a person whose job is to repair or control machines, engines, or electrical equipment:
US UK engine driver a train driver
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- a sound engineer
- As an engineer, he was a disaster.
- He started his working life as an engineer but later became a teacher.
- A top German engineer has been appointed to troubleshoot the cause of the accident.
- The engineer soon got the air-conditioning up and running again.
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Civil engineering in general
- caisson
- civil engineering
- greenfield
- landscape
- lineman
- linesman
- planner
- planning
- planning permission
- purpose-built
- quantity surveyor
- reclamation
- redevelop
- ribbon development
- structural engineer
- surveyor
- town planning
- urbanize
- zone
- zoning
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engineerverb [ T ]
uk/ˌen.dʒɪˈnɪər/us/ˌen.dʒɪˈnɪr/engineer verb [ T ] (ARRANGE)
to arrange cleverly and often secretly for something to happen, especially something that is to your advantage:
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Planning, expecting and arranging
- accidentally
- accidentally on purpose idiom
- advertent
- advisedly
- aim
- aim at sth
- calculate
- chart
- I might have known idiom
- in the pipeline idiom
- intend
- intent
- intention
- outlook
- promise
- reckon on sth
- scheme
- scientific
- see sth coming idiom
- set sth up
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engineer verb [ T ] (BUILD)
to design and build something using scientific principles
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Inventing, designing and innovation
- architect
- artificer
- authoring
- blueprint
- cad
- coin
- computer-aided design
- ergonomics
- father
- founding father
- guinea pig
- improvisation
- innovate
- mint
- pioneer
- redesign
- research
- research and development
- robotics
- tech
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