Synonyms of engineers

engineers 1 of 2

noun

plural of engineer

as in architects

a person who designs and guides a plan or undertaking

the engineer of a movement to eradicate hunger

Synonyms & Similar Words

• architects
• masterminds
• leaders
• designers
• makers
• organizers
• builders
• developers
• managers
• originators
• producers
• pioneers
• commanders
• directors
• inaugurators
• handlers
• formulators
• planners
• quarterbacks
• generators
• initiators
• schemers
• plotters
• captains
• spawners
• contrivers
• arrangers
• instituters
• inspirers
• hatchers
• finaglers
• machinators
• maneuverers

engineers

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verb

present tense third-person singular of engineer

as in negotiates

to plan out usually with subtle skill or care

the mayor engineered an agreement to have a major league team play in our city

Synonyms & Similar Words

• negotiates
• plots
• maneuvers
• manipulates
• arranges
• masterminds
• manages
• finesses
• contrives
• concludes
• frames
• machinates
• wangles
• schemes
• finagles
• concerts
• works out
• captains
• angles (for)
• intrigues
• hatches
• hammers out
• compasses
• conducts
• cooks (up)
• directs
• commands
• brews
• concocts
• handles
• connives
• quarterbacks
• runs
• gerrymanders

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• butchers
• blows
• fumbles
• messes (up)
• bungles
• flubs
• mangles
• gums (up)
• botches
• bobbles
• mishandles
• muffs
• louses up

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of engineers

Noun

Once that concrete base is complete, engineers will begin installing the main turbine itself. — Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 8 Oct. 2026

The men said support staff and engineers are also being reduced on the company side. — Shelley Jones, Chicago Tribune, 8 Oct. 2026

For engineers, having a blank slate was both an appeal and a terror. — Erik Shilling, Robb Report, 7 Oct. 2026

The company reports roughly 300 employees, including about 80 underwriters and 50 engineers. — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 7 Oct. 2026

In the following decades, computer scientists and engineers enabled computing capabilities to be scaled up, developing graphics chips, the transformer architecture and more. — Arryn Robbins, The Conversation, 7 Oct. 2026

Google engineers have told Ars that limiting access is necessary to prevent people from using the checks to develop SynthID removal tools. — Ryan Whitwam, ArsTechnica, 7 Oct. 2026

But running complex machine-learning systems requires such a specialized set of skills that engineers can be difficult to replace without disruptions, giving these actors great leverage. — Seva Gunitsky, Foreign Affairs, 1 Oct. 2026

Verb

When Gilla Band hit the road, their front-of-house guy drives, Fox also engineers, Kiely sells merch, and Faulkner runs tech. — Laura Snapes, Pitchfork, 9 July 2026

Our enterprising Gravedigger, a true woman of science, engineers a lizard elixir and regenerates the finger into a long tentacle that eventually demands a body. — Katie Walsh, Los Angeles Times, 27 Mar. 2026

Setup is seamless thanks to AI Sonic Auto Room Calibration, which engineers the audio to your specific space. — Juhi Wadia, PC Magazine, 19 Mar. 2026

Tender’s assets Tender CEO Whitney Halberstram (Max Minghella) engineers the downfall of co-founder Jonah Atterbury (Kal Penn) and eventually leaves Henry holding the bag for the company’s fraud. — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 6 Mar. 2026

The official alleged that the paper engineers a finding by excluding evidence and designing a study with a bias toward showing no association. — Aria Bendix, NBC news, 16 Jan. 2026

Big Tech now engineers a perpetual state of insecurity by creating relentless technological churn, rendering our skills and safety measures obsolete, only to then sell us the tools to catch up. — Vivian Toh, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025

The study, conducted over several years, uses an approach that engineers artificial proteins (referred to as ion channels) in the brain that are activated by and bound to cocaine. — Noah Lyons, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Sep. 2025

The Colts are stuck in QB purgatory unless Anthony Richardson engineers a massive turnaround. — Parker Gabriel, Denver Post, 29 Aug. 2025