Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The post of engineer.
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Examples
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Lights, son of Robert Stevenson, brother of Alan and David; so that his nephew, David Alan Stevenson, joined with him at the time of his death in the engineership, is the sixth of the family who has held, successively or conjointly, that office.
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The railway had been constructed under the engineership of Major Whistler, father of the well-known artist; and it was shortly about to be opened.
James Nasmyth: Engineer, An Autobiography. Nasmyth, James 1885
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Telford was not even a candidate for the engineership, and had not dreamt of offering himself, so that the proposal came upon him entirely by surprise.
The Life of Thomas Telford Smiles, Samuel, 1812-1904 1867
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But the son, foreseeing the jealousies and heartburnings which the joint engineership would most probably create, recommended his father to decline the connection.
Lives of the Engineers The Locomotive. George and Robert Stephenson Samuel Smiles 1858
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