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

How floating solar panels work Instead of attaching panels to racks planted in the ground, engineers mount them on floating platforms. — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 10 Sep. 2026

Now, civil engineer Jishen Qiu and his team wondered if engineers could exploit Mars’s hostile climate, rather than fighting the planet’s extremely low temperature. — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 10 Sep. 2026

Unlimited messages every month make the Unlimited Plan a good fit for prompt engineers, startups, and teams that rely on AI heavily enough to need the extra room. — Stackcommerce Team, PC Magazine, 10 Sep. 2026

Combined with an operational culture built around risk mitigation—where engineers naturally view black-box decision-making with skepticism—the barrier to scaling AI becomes cultural rather than technical. — Abhay Gupta, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2026

Ada County Highway District engineers and Boise Planning and Zoning commissioners looked at the same plan to replace the Eckert Road Bridge near Barber Park and drew opposite conclusions. — Mark Dee, Idaho Statesman, 3 Sep. 2026

Instead, the engineers had to walk to the physical location of the problem—somewhere in the 4,000 square feet of floor space the electromechanical computer took up. — Encyclopedia Britannica, 3 Sep. 2026

By combining central load absorption, multi-axis flexibility, and active retraction control, the Robotrax system offers plant engineers and system integrators a reliable path toward maximizing robot uptime and reducing total operational costs. — IEEE Spectrum, 3 Sep. 2026

Last year, engineers also found at least 10 stickers placed on particularly vulnerable parts of the energy network infrastructure. — Emma Burrows, Fortune, 3 Sep. 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