What is to use contrivance and effort for; to guide the course of; to manage; as, to engineer a bill through Congress. [Colloq.] called?
engineer — To use contrivance and effort for; to guide the course of; to manage; as, to engineer a bill through Congress. [Colloq.]. (Webster's 1913.)
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- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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