Meaning of engineer In English

• 0 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 civil engineer

  • a mechanical/structural engineer

  • a software engineer

  • a computer engineer

  • The engineer is coming to repair our phone tomorrow morning.

• 1 to arrange cleverly and often secretly for something to happen, especially something that is to your advantage:

  • Left-wing groups engineered a coup against the military government.

  • I'm trying to engineer a meeting between them.

• 2 to design and build something using scientific principles

• 3 a person specially trained to design and build machines, structures, and other things, including bridges, roads, vehicles, and buildings:

  • He is an engineer at a large electronics company.

• 4 to plan, design, or build according to scientific principles:

  • The bridge is engineered to withstand an earthquake.

• 5 to plan or do something in a skillful way:

  • The administration engineered a compromise.

• 6 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:

  • 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.

• 7 a person whose job is to repair or control machines, engines or electrical equipment:

  • a service/telephone/heating engineer

• 8 to design and build something using scientific principles:

  • If you tell us the size of the part that you need, we will engineer it to fit.

• 9 to try to arrange for something to happen, usually something complicated or difficult:

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