Definition of engineer

• n. - A person skilled in the principles and practice of any branch of engineering. See under Engineering, n.
• n. - One who manages as engine, particularly a steam engine; an engine driver.
• n. - One who carries through an enterprise by skillful or artful contrivance; an efficient manager.
• v. t. - To lay out or construct, as an engineer; to perform the work of an engineer on; as, to engineer a road.
• v. t. - To use contrivance and effort for; to guide the course of; to manage; as, to engineer a bill through Congress.