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MILITARY ENGINEER
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Dictionary entry overview: What does military engineer mean?
• MILITARY ENGINEER (noun)
The noun MILITARY ENGINEER has 1 sense:
1. a member of the military who is trained in engineering and construction work
Familiarity information: MILITARY ENGINEER used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A member of the military who is trained in engineering and construction work
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
army engineer; military engineer
Hypernyms ("military engineer" is a kind of...):
applied scientist; engineer; technologist (a person who uses scientific knowledge to solve practical problems)
Domain category:
armed forces; armed services; military; military machine; war machine (the military forces of a nation)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "military engineer"):
sapper (a military engineer who does sapping (digging trenches or undermining fortifications))
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