Usually means: Manipulation exploiting human psychological weaknesses.
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We found 27 dictionaries that define the word social engineering:

General (15 matching dictionaries)
  1. social engineering: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. social engineering: Merriam-Webster
  3. social engineering: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. social engineering: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. social engineering: Collins English Dictionary
  6. social-engineering: Wordnik
  7. social engineering: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. social engineering: Wiktionary
  9. social engineering: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. social engineering: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. social engineering: Dictionary.com
  12. Social Engineering, Social engineering (computer security), Social engineering (political science), Social engineering (security), Social engineering: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. social engineering: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Electronic Commerce Dictionary (No longer online)

Computing (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. social engineering: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. social engineering: Netlingo
  3. social engineering: CCI Computer
  4. Glossary of Internet Terms (No longer online)
  5. Webopedia (No longer online)
  6. social engineering: Hacking Lexicon
  7. Technopedia (No longer online)
  8. social engineering: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. A Brief Critical Dictionary of Education (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. social engineering: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See social_engineer as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (social engineering)

noun:  (sociology) Use of numerical data to inform social programs.
noun:  (political science) Efforts to influence attitudes and social behaviors on a large scale, in order to produce desired characteristics in a target population.
noun:  (computer security) The practice of tricking a user into giving, or giving access to, sensitive information, thereby bypassing most or all protection.

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