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engineer officer

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noun

  1. a ship's officer who is qualified to be in charge of the vessel's propulsion and other machinery

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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She also paid the educational fees for the first marine engineer officer from Mauritius.

From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2022

He served in the Army for five years as an engineer officer, including two deployments to Afghanistan in 2010 and 2012.

From New York Times ● May 6, 2018

Woods, whose first name and other details have been withheld for security reasons, is a weapon engineer officer aboard the vessel, one of the UK’s four submarines that carry Trident ballistic missiles and nuclear warheads.

From The Guardian ● Jan. 21, 2016

Florence Banta, who lived on the 17th floor of the building, was found on Monday morning by a building maintenance engineer, officer John Mirabelli said.

From Reuters ● Apr. 2, 2013

As McClellan was an engineer officer, he was, doubtless, good for entrenchments, if for nothing else.

From Personal Recollections of the War of 1861 As Private, Sergeant and Lieutenant in the Sixty-First Regiment, New York Volunteer Infantry by Charles Augustus Fuller

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