I want someone to explain to me something in the following sentence:?

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I want someone to explain to me something in the following sentence:?

" You can engineer around these problems, or you can engineer them out."

I want to know the meaning of engineer around and engineer out, because these are new words to me.

2006-12-17 07:49:07 · 2 answers · asked by Amr R 1 in Education & Reference ➔ Words & Wordplay

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You can't take these words literally.

To engineer around a problem means to go around the problem. It means, unlike engineering out a problem, that you're not actually solving it. You're just using other ways to get around to it.

2006-12-17 07:52:38 · answer #1 · answered by Diamond 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋

You can either work around them and not solve them, or your can work them out and solve them.

2006-12-17 08:07:11 · answer #2 · answered by Pethy 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋