engineer
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From Middle English engineour < Old French engignier < Mediaeval Latin ingeniarius < ingenium (“‘an engine’”) < in (“‘in’”) + gignere (“‘to beget, produce’”), OL. genere; see ingenious.
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engineer (plural engineers)
- A person who is qualified or professionally engaged in any branch of engineering.
- A person who, given a problem and a specific set of goals and constraints, finds a technical solution to the problem that satisfies those goals within those constraints. The goals and constraints may be technical, social, or business related.
- A person who operates an engine (such as a locomotive).
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Person qualified or professionally engaged in engineering
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A person who finds a technical solution to a problem
Locomotive operator
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to engineer (third-person singular simple present engineers, present participle engineering, simple past and past participle engineered)
- (transitive) To design, construct or manage something as an engineer.
- (transitive) To alter or construct something by means of genetic engineering.
- (transitive) To plan or achieve some goal by contrivance or guile; to wangle or finagle.
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to work as engineer
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to do genetic engineering
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to plan or achieve a goal by contrivance or guile
[edit] External links
- engineer in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- engineer in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911

