engineering firm

collocation in English

meaningsofengineeringandfirm

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engineering
noun[U]
uk
/ˌen.dʒɪˈnɪə.rɪŋ/us
/ˌen.dʒɪˈnɪr.ɪŋ/
the work of an engineer (= a person who designs or builds machines, engines, electrical systems, or large structures such as roads or bridges using scientific principles), or the study of ...
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firm
adjective
uk
/fɜːm/us
/fɝːm/
not soft but not ...
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(Definition ofengineeringandfirmfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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He is employed by a privateengineeringfirmas a machinist.
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It started off with the usual felicitations and turned out to be an inquiry from anengineeringfirm.
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If in anengineeringfirmthe foundry or forge does not come up to requirements, the management can close it and rely on outside suppliers.
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When anengineeringfirmmakes apprentices redundant and decides to sell its apprentice workshop, there is no long-term future.
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It is common for a lightengineeringfirmto have to hold in stock 1,000 different components used for manufactured goods.
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I have been for forty years head of a highly technicalengineeringfirm, a very competitive firm.
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That was anengineeringfirmproducing engineering equipment for the cotton industry.
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There is a smallengineeringfirmfor which arrangements had been made in connection with industrial training.
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We know of anengineeringfirmwhich cannot finance more than a replacement level of investment.
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Then there is an electricalengineeringfirmin that district, established just before the war, which expects to continue to employ 400 workers, mainly women.
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There was no prototype to be seen and there was not anengineeringfirm, of great prestige in this particular field behind the projects.
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As you undoubtedly know, anengineeringfirminterested has put forward proposals.
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He said that it was a smallengineeringfirmwith 67 employees.
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Given that, the personnel director or manager in charge of security for theengineeringfirmas a whole would also require a licence.
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I was saying that its staff knows intimately every largeengineeringfirmin the country, its personnel and its capacity to carry out contracts.
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It is anengineeringfirmwhich, in the normal way, makes horizontal diesel engines.
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That would be the position if anengineeringfirmhad a registered insurance broker as an employee.
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A largeengineeringfirm, for example, may hire a private security firm to man the gates and to provide manned guarding at night.
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Suppose the garage had been taken over, on requisitioning, by some largeengineeringfirm, making some such thing as tanks or aeroplanes.
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The firm, though not in time of peace anengineeringfirm, now holds munitions contracts.
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