engineer
/ˌɛnd͡ʒɪˈnɪ(ə)ɹ/ verb C1- To employ one's abilities and knowledge as an engineer to design, construct, and/or maintain (something, such as a machine or a structure), usually for industrial or public use.
- To use genetic engineering to alter or construct (a DNA sequence), or to alter (an organism).
- To plan or achieve (a goal) by contrivance or guile; to finagle, to wangle.
- To formulate plots or schemes; to plot, to scheme.
He/she/it engineers · Past engineered · Past participle engineered · -ing form engineering
Verb forms
- Base form
- engineer
- He/she/it
- engineers
- Past
- engineered
- Past participle
- engineered
- -ing form
- engineering
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“The other is that it has been engineered by Moriarty in the ordinary course of business.
Moriarty may have been engaged to engineer it on a promise of part spoils, or he may have been paid so much down to manage it.
My dad is a doctor, and my mom is an engineer.
It was George de Mestral, a Swiss engineer who loved spending time outdoors.
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