I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a software developer/engineer/designer
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her job as a software developer
an engineering/building/electronics etc firm
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Fred worked for an electronics firm.
chemical engineering
civil engineering
electrical engineer (= a person who designs and makes electrical equipment )
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an electrical engineer
genetic engineering
mechanical engineering
reverse engineering
social engineering
structural engineer
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
chemical
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This is based on calculations performed by chemical engineers and also on experimental trials carried out in a laboratory or pilot plant.
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My father a chemical engineer way out ahead of most of his peers.
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The subject material is predominantly allied to separation technologies on an industrial scale with the likely audience being chemical and process engineers .
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What do you do if you are a bored chemical engineer in Linden, New Jersey?
chief
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We got out at Pendre and Graham and the chief engineer gave us very detailed guided tours showing the extent of operations.
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So Rudd was appointed team manager and chief engineer for the season.
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To reassure the public, Mulholland and his chief engineer rode out to the site on March 12 for an inspection.
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He wanted to be chief engineer of Aston Martin.
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Joseph King was head of the Midvale machine shop under Taylor, who by now was chief engineer in all but title.
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The Ariadne's chief engineer , Lieutenant McCafferty, rarely ventured near his own domain.
civil
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On discovering the fretting, he informed the chief civil engineer who imposed a strict speed limit on the bridge.
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The Internal Revenue Service acknowledges that McGill, a retired civil engineer , never owed the government.
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Workshops and initiatives for the newly arrived civil engineers , tile-makers and labourers did not materialise.
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He was also a partner in the firm of Robertson &038; Mackintosh, civil engineers , with offices in London.
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Brad Joss, civil engineer , killed in a vehicle accident in Sonoma County on Jan. 4, 1994.
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Construction Plus is a series of community-focused web portals initially targeting architects, civil engineers and construction contractors.
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The some one was a respected civil engineer , Charles B.. Stuart, who had worked surveying both lines.
consulting
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Grove Projects will also act as consulting engineer .
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Grove Projects is the consulting engineer .
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John: In 1985, John had to give up his career as a consulting engineer because he was desperately ill.
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Similar provisions also exist for consulting engineers and building designers.
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Engineering evidence Introduction Engineers are the next most frequently used experts. Consulting engineers are expensive.
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At the end of 1851 he left Fox &038; Henderson to practise on his own account in London as a consulting engineer .
electrical
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I became 110 Women in Engineering an electrical engineer , by the way, because I was terrified of machines.
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Her husband was an electrical engineer who wanted only to be a poet.
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Powersafe has a UK-wide network of branches and its team of electrical engineers has undergone six months of specialist training.
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Simeon still insisted, against all plausibility, that he would graduate from City as an electrical engineer .
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He dresses and acts more like a 36-year-old electrical engineer .
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Gary was an electrical engineer for a defense contractor in the Washington area.
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Now he was thinking about becoming a mechanical or electrical engineer .
genetic
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For the genetic engineers , the grail of nitrogen-fixation remains unattainable.
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Recently, John Fagin, an internationally recognized molecular biologist and former genetic engineer from Fairfield, Iowa, made a stand.
mechanical
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The electronics package will demand more space within the casing than the mechanical engineers can provide.
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Now he was thinking about becoming a mechanical or electrical engineer .
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I think the world will always need mechanical engineers .
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At a drop zone there she met Steve, a tall, outgoing mechanical engineer who built jet engines.
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Tien insists he wants to go back to teaching and research as a mechanical engineer .
senior
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Newell felt that Lippincott, as the senior engineer most familiar with the project, should sit on the panel.
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He joined the company last year as senior design engineer .
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Burnham described FlashPort as a beefy, sophisticated and complex piece of software suitable for use by a senior engineer .
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Long-term planning took a back seat in the deliberations of the senior engineers whose efforts were principally devoted to overcoming short-term problems.
structural
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Veronica, a civil and structural engineer , also has a technical day at work.
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Anyone with a wall problem should hire a qualified structural engineer to write a specification that will solve the problem.
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If they have, then a structural engineer must be asked to advise.
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For the structural engineer considering how to design a steel skeleton for the skyscraper, there were certain important implications.
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I face the same problems as a structural engineer .
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As a structural engineer , he draws conclusions about overly high chimneys, mortar quality, and roofing tiles.
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To overcome this templates were made and a structural engineer took constant vertical and horizontal measurements to plot the path of construction.
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A structural engineer or knowledgeable contractor can advise you on that.
■ NOUN
electronics
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He qualified as an electronics engineer before going to teachers' training college after which he obtained a degree in art history.
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Alex, an electronics engineer , landed a job after two months with a fast-paced computer company on the Peninsula.
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Drinking in the Bull and Bush, are 25-year-old Edward Galley, an electronics engineer , and a couple of friends.
flight
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His first ambition was to be a pilot or flight engineer .
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During the first two years 184 pilots, 43 instructors and 47 flight engineers completed their training.
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Long after he left to become a flight engineer it continued to light them through the war and for many years after.
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I handed it to a former flight engineer of 213 when I visited him in Toronto some years ago.
maintenance
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In the far more complex factory environment the skilled maintenance engineer is likely to have a role for some considerable time yet.
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Sometimes the maintenance engineer is dealing with a type of failure he has never had before.
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Consider for example the maintenance engineer operating as a diagnostician.
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Pilots and other flight crew immediately come to mind; so too do maintenance engineers and air traffic controllers.
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An experienced maintenance engineer approaches a problem as follows: 1.
mining
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I can also listen to a conversation between mining engineers and understand ninety-five percent of it, even after all these years.
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He had been a mining engineer and away for months at a time.
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A distinguished and internationally-known writer and thinker, Serfaty was a mining engineer by profession.
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Elliot was one of a new type of mining engineer whose expertise extended to many parts of the industry.
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Hatch resigned his appointment in 1892 and went to work as a mining engineer in Johannesburg.
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My husband used to be a mining engineer , but we got tired of living abroad, so we bought this place.
service
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In addition, there was one passenger on board, a ground service engineer who was to supervise ground handling at transit stops.
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Computer service engineer - installing and maintaining computer systems and carrying out repairs when breakdowns occur.
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He started his career as a distribution engineer , before becoming a service engineer.
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Systems development was concentrated in the newly released Field Base package for service engineer operators.
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The Profitboss identifies Marilyn McGregor as the top-ranking customer service engineer , highlighting the stream of compliments she gets from the field.
software
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Certainly not software engineers or aerobics instructors.
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And Rob, the twice-fired software engineer ?
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Set up in 1999 by John Breen, a software engineer in Indiana, the site aims to reduce world hunger.
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The typical software engineer at Tandem is making $ 65, 000 to $ 80, 000 a year.
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At that time I was considered one of the best software engineers of my generation.
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Jerome Coonen, one of the software engineers , spoke for the entire team.
■ VERB
train
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Wolf meanwhile dreamed of becoming a designer of Soviet planes and trained as an engineer .
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An answering service or beeper number is no substitute for a trained network engineer .
work
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Jilly Curry uses her bilingual secretarial skills in London and Simon Baynes combines freelance photography with working as a telephone engineer .
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He worked as an engineer with a construction company and lived quietly with girlfriend Lorna Burns in Eltham, south London.
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Her 20-year-old son, Michael, who worked as an engineer , also lived in the house.
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He was working as an engineer for Boston Edison, still patiently waiting for Amelia to settle down and marry him.
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Her previous construction industry experience includes working as a site engineer , sub-agent and regional quality manager.
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Gary, 26, left school with just four CSEs and began working as an engineer .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
chartered accountant/surveyor/engineer etc
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B and W were the two main equity partners in the firm of chartered accountants, C Connelly & Co.
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For any chartered accountant interested in the package, Aldercare is offering the package free of charge for a 30-day trial.
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He is a chartered engineer and a Member of Metallurgists.
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Last year 1,050 people lost the right to call themselves chartered accountants because they didn't stump up by 30 June.
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Working in a manufacturing company, or as a solicitor or chartered accountant gives invaluable experience.
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Young Man: Mrs Grant, my Dad's a chartered accountant.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a civil engineer
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a flight engineer
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a software engineer
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Among our sample were six engineers who, with differing motives, had been mature entrants to the profession.
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As a recording engineer for the Beach Boys and other bands, Stephen Desper experimented with all sorts of sound technology.
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He says the engineers were unable to explain why the cars were so slow.
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Hewlett-Packard asks customers to make presentations describing their needs to its engineers.
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I became 110 Women in Engineering an electrical engineer, by the way, because I was terrified of machines.
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Mercedes-Benz's proud engineers also loathe being lumped in with companies making everything from washing machines to weapons.
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They made a point of recruiting fledgling Latino engineers into the organization.
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Without the models, the engineers had difficulty communicating at all.
II. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
genetically
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Once released, genetically engineered organisms become part of our ecosystem.
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Personally I want genetically engineered foods and anything containing genetically engineered food ingredients banned.
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U.S. farmers sold the world about $ 50 billion in farm goods last year, much of it genetically engineered .
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Personally I want genetically engineered foods and anything containing genetically engineered food ingredients banned.
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Anti-\#genetically engineered cotton action at Marks and Spencer-we think!
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If insects learned to adapt to genetically engineered plants, the result could be widespread crop failure and famine, critics warn.
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As we march off boldly into a genetically engineered future, the moral and ethical issues will get more and more pressing.
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The component had been genetically engineered to produce a vaccine highly effective against all strains.
■ NOUN
professor
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The departure of Mark, now a professor of engineering at the University of Texas, also had a more direct effect.
■ VERB
try
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Furniture retailer Conroys is trying to engineer a compromise.
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Some of us can remember Taber trying to engineer a carnival a few years back, and what happened to it.
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She was trying to engineer her escape from the classics lecturer when Jamie made his way over.
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They try too hard to engineer a safe environment for their child and, in so doing, interfere substantially-with serious consequences.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Before they could engineer an escape, they had to be sure that none of the guards were suspicious.
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Sakakida engineered the escape of nearly 500 prisoners of war.
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The socialist party secretly engineered the defeat of the government.
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This computer has been specially engineered to run the latest operating systems.