1 a person whose job involves designing and building engines, machines, roads, bridges, etc:
an electrical / a mechanical engineer
seealsoCHEMICALENGINEER, CIVILENGINEER, LIGHTINGENGINEER, SOFTWAREENGINEER, SOUNDENGINEER
2 a person who is trained to repair machines and electrical equipment:
They're sending an engineer to fix the phone.
3 a person whose job is to control and repair engines, especially on a ship or an aircraft:
a flight engineer * the chief engineer on a cruise liner
4 (AmE) = ENGINEDRIVER
5 a soldier trained to design and build military structures
verb [VN]
1 (often disapproving) to arrange for sth to happen or take place, especially when this is done secretly in order to give yourself an advantage:
She engineered a further meeting with him.
2 [usuallypassive] to design and build sth:
The car is beautifully engineered and a pleasure to drive.
3 to change the GENETIC structure of sth:
genetically engineered crops
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