marine engineer

1. 1.

   a naval officer responsible for the operation and maintenance of the ship's engines

   Synonymsnaval engineer

   Broaderengineer

   military

Questions about marine engineer

What does marine engineer mean?

marine engineer means "a naval officer responsible for the operation and maintenance of the ship's engines".

What is another word for marine engineer?

Close synonyms include naval engineer. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is marine engineer a common word?

marine engineer is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.