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WordBand 5.5–6.5Core (NGSL)
engineer
/ˌɛnd͡ʒɪˈnɪə/
noun1 of 2
professional who designs and builds machines, roads, and other complicated structures
- “This machine is specially engineered to work in extreme weather.”Tatoeba
- “My father is an engineer, and my mother is a nurse.”Tatoeba
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verb2 of 2
To plan or achieve some goal by contrivance or guile; to wangle or finagle.
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Source: New General Service List (Browne, Culligan & Phillips) (CC BY-SA 4.0); Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0); Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR)