Usually means: Designer of practical, technical solutions.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. engineer: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. engineer: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. engineer: Collins English Dictionary
  4. engineer: Vocabulary.com
  5. Engineer, engineer: Wordnik
  6. engineer: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. engineer: Wiktionary
  8. engineer: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. engineer: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. engineer: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. engineer: Dictionary.com
  12. engineer (n.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. engineer: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Engineer (Afghan honorific), Engineer (comics), Engineer (disambiguation), Engineer (film), Engineer (railroad), Engineer, The Engineer (UK magazine), The Engineer (magazine), The Engineer: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Engineer: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. engineer: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. engineer: Rhymezone
  18. engineer: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. engineer: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. engineer: Free Dictionary
  21. engineer: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. Engineer: The Word Detective
  23. engineer: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. engineer: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  25. engineer: Merriam-Webster.com

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  2. engineer: Legal dictionary
  3. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. engineer: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. engineer: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Navajo Code Talkers' Dictionary (No longer online)
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  3. Arms and Armour (No longer online)

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dictionary of anthropology (No longer online)
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Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. engineer: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. engineer: Webster's New World Telecom Dictionary
  2. Glossary of video terms (No longer online)
  3. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

(Note: See engineered as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  (military, also figuratively)
noun:  A soldier engaged in designing or constructing military works for attack or defence, or other engineering works.
noun:  (obsolete) A soldier in charge of operating a weapon; an artilleryman, a gunner.
noun:  (by extension)
noun:  A person professionally engaged in the technical design and construction of large-scale private and public works such as bridges, buildings, harbours, railways, roads, etc.; a civil engineer.
noun:  Originally, a person engaged in designing, constructing, or maintaining engines or machinery; now (more generally), a person qualified or professionally engaged in any branch of engineering, or studying to do so.
noun:  A person trained to operate an engine; an engineman.
noun:  (chiefly historical) A person who operates a steam engine; specifically (nautical), a person employed to operate the steam engine in the engine room of a ship.
noun:  (US, firefighting) A person who drives or operates a fire engine.
noun:  (chiefly US, rail transport) A person who drives or operates a locomotive; a train driver.
noun:  Preceded by a qualifying word: a person who uses abilities or knowledge to manipulate events or people.
noun:  (often derogatory) A person who formulates plots or schemes; a plotter, a schemer.
noun:  An honorific title given to engineers before their name.
verb:  (transitive)
verb:  To employ one's abilities and knowledge as an engineer to design, construct, and/or maintain (something, such as a machine or a structure), usually for industrial or public use.
verb:  (specifically) To use genetic engineering to alter or construct (a DNA sequence), or to alter (an organism).
verb:  To plan or achieve (a goal) by contrivance or guile; to finagle, to wangle.
verb:  (intransitive)
verb:  To formulate plots or schemes; to plot, to scheme.
verb:  (rare) To work as an engineer.

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