Synonyms of engineers

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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

Former SpaceX engineers think a long-dormant nuclear reactor experiment is key to meeting the power needs of data centers. — Evan Halper, Washington Post, 21 Aug. 2026

Skibitskiy said the North Korean troops already deployed are spread mostly in Russia’s Kursk region and include a thousand engineers and deminers. — Nick Paton Walsh, CNN Money, 21 Aug. 2026

In addition to training operators, the Pentagon will need to embed knowledgeable engineers, data scientists, and legal advisers to help senior military leaders navigate thorny issues relating to human-AI interaction on the battlefield. — Emelia S. Probasco, Foreign Affairs, 20 Aug. 2026

AdaCAD, by contrast, is available online at no cost and designed to create common ground among weavers, engineers, computer scientists and creative coders. — Alexandra Harrell, Footwear News, 20 Aug. 2026

During the past 10 months, construction workers and engineers have ripped out everything below the upper tier and reconfigured the stadium. — Matthew Futterman, New York Times, 20 Aug. 2026

Its engineers are not trying to reinvent every part of a nuclear power plant. — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 20 Aug. 2026

The team’s engineers have already used 3D printing to help build robot prototypes that are being tested by certain customers. — Jeremy Hsu, ArsTechnica, 20 Aug. 2026

The startup was founded in 2023 by three Israeli engineers, brothers Dean and Orian Leitersdorf and Moshe Shalev. — Lynn Doan, Fortune, 13 Aug. 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