1. Noun
A person skilled in the principles and practice of any branch of engineering. See under Engineering, n.
2. Noun
One who manages as engine, particularly a steam engine; an engine driver.
3. Noun
One who carries through an enterprise by skillful or artful contrivance; an efficient manager.
4. Verb
To lay out or construct, as an engineer; to perform the work of an engineer on; as, to engineer a road.
5. Verb
To use contrivance and effort for; to guide the course of; to manage; as, to engineer a bill through Congress.
6. Verb
plan and direct (a complex undertaking); "he masterminded the robbery"
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