Glossary entry (derived from question below)
English term or phrase:
Combat engineer
Romanian translation:
militar genist
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Camelia Colnic
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English term
Combat engineer
English to Romanian
Science
Military / Defense
Combat engineers primarily supervise, serve or assist as a member of a team when they are tackling rough terrain in combat situations. They provide their expertise in areas such as mobility, countermobility, survivability and general engineering.
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5 +6 | militar genist | Augustin Dragoste |
4 | Inginer militar | Gabriela McCusker |
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militar genist
There are no advanced academic qualifications required to be a combat engineer. The term "engineer" is not to be confused with the term applied to Professional Engineer or Chartered Engineer. A combat engineer, also called pioneer or sapper in many armies, is a soldier who performs a variety of construction and demolition tasks under combat conditions.
Example sentence:
GENÍST, geniști, s. m. Militar din trupele de geniu (III). – Geniu + suf.-ist. Sursa: DEX '98 (1998), Geniu= Armă militară care cuprinde trupe specializate pentru executarea lucrărilor de fortificații, de drumuri, de poduri etc.
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Inginer militar
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