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geoengineer

geoengineer noun: an engineer whose speciality is geoengineering (geological engineering).

Noun

geoengineer (plural geoengineers)

  1. An engineer whose speciality is geoengineering (geological engineering).
    • Clearing up rock and fallen vegetation at such an awkward site required a team of specialist geoengineers.2020 August 26, Andrew Mourant, “Reinforced against future flooding”, in Rail, page 61
  2. Someone engaged in geoengineering (manipulation of Earth's habitats, especially to counter global warming).

Verb

geoengineer (third-person singular simple present geoengineers, present participle geoengineering, simple past and past participle geoengineered)

  1. (transitive) To produce by means of geoengineering.

Forms of geoengineer

Noun
pluralgeoengineers
Verb
third-person singular presentgeoengineers
present participlegeoengineering
past participlegeoengineered
pastgeoengineered

Origin of geoengineer

From geo- + engineer.

Questions about geoengineer

What does geoengineer mean?
Geoengineer means an engineer whose speciality is geoengineering (geological engineering).
What part of speech is geoengineer?
Geoengineer can be a noun or a verb.
What is the plural of geoengineer?
The plural of geoengineer is geoengineers.

Words near geoengineer in the dictionary

  1. geoelectricity
  2. geoemydid
  3. geoemydids
  4. geoemydine
  5. geoenabled
  6. geoengineer
  7. geoengineered
  8. geoengineering
  9. geoengineers
  10. geoenvironment
  11. geoenvironmental

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Adapted from Wiktionary: geoengineer (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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