civil engineer
Word forms: civil engineers
countable noun
A civil engineer is a person who plans, designs, and constructs roads, bridges, harbours, and public buildings.
Early on she worked as a civil engineer.
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- to beat someone black and blue
- to beat someone's brains out
- to beat the clock
- to beat the drum for someone or something
- to beat the shit out of someone
- to be at your wits' end
- to be barking up the wrong tree
- to be better than nothing
- to be born and bred
- to be born with a silver spoon in your mouth
- to be breathing down someone's neck
- to be caught between a rock and a hard place
- to be caught dead
- to be caught short
- to be caught with one's pants down
- to be eaten alive
- to be exact
- (to) be fair
- to be frank
- to be full of beans
- to begin life
- to begin with
- to be going on with
- to be had
- to be high time