- a person whose job involves designing and building engines, machines, roads, bridges, etc.
- We worked with a team of scientists and engineers.
- You need the advice of a qualified engineer.
- engineers who designed and built advanced military aircraft
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- chief
- chartered
- qualified
- …
- build something
- design something
- develop something
- …
- a person who is trained to repair machines and electrical equipment
- They're sending an engineer to fix the problem with the heating.
- We were on the phone with a technical support engineer.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- qualified
- skilled
- trained
- …
- call in
- call out
- 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
- (North American English) (British English engine driver)a person whose job is driving a railway engine
- a soldier trained to design and build military structures
Word OriginMiddle English (denoting a designer and constructor of fortifications and weapons; formerly also as ingineer): in early use from Old French engigneor, from medieval Latin ingeniator, from ingeniare ‘contrive, devise’, from Latin ingenium ‘talent, device’, from in- ‘in’ + gignere ‘beget’; in later use from French ingénieur or Italian ingegnere, also based on Latin ingenium, with the ending influenced by -eer.
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