Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

combat engineer

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.23 in modern English

Syllables: com-bat- engi-neer
IPA

21

Scrabble Score

14

Letters

4

Syllables

11

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A soldier employed to carry out engineering tasks in support of land forces during combat operations, facilitating the mobility of friendly forces while impeding that of the enemy.

Example Sentences

"With him were 60,000 combat engineers for multiple bridgings of the river, and hundreds of thousands of tons of supplies, landing craft, and amphibious vehicles."

Inflected Forms

combat engineers (plural)

Synonyms

field engineer pioneer sapper

Questions

What does combat engineer mean?: A soldier employed to carry out engineering tasks in support of land forces during combat operations, facilitating the mobility of friendly forces while impeding that of the enemy.

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