ingeniar

v.

1 to invent, to devise.

2 to engineer, to conceive, to invent, to contrive.

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ingeniar

Conjugation model [CAMBIAR], like cambiar

► verbo transitivo

1 to devise

► verbo pronominal ingeniárselas

1 to manage, find a way, contrive

■ habrá que ingeniárselas para que nos dejen pasar gratis we'll have to find some way of getting in free

■ se las ingenió para que le subieran el sueldo he wangled a salary increase

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1.

VT to devise, think up

2.

See:

ingeniarse

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verbo transitivo <método/sistema> to devise, think up

ingeniárselas — (fam)

se las ingenió para arreglarlo — he managed to fix it

no sé cómo se las ingenia — I don't know how she does it

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= engineer.

Ex. So, in telephone transmission the bandwidth of each speech circuit is engineered to be 4kHz.

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* cómo nos las ingeniamos para = how in the world....

* ingeniarse = contrive, devise.

* ingeniarse el modo de = dream up + ways to.

* ingeniárselas = manage to, finesse, get by.

* ingeniárselas para = figure out how.

* ingeniárselas para escapar = contrive + an escape.

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verbo transitivo <método/sistema> to devise, think up

ingeniárselas — (fam)

se las ingenió para arreglarlo — he managed to fix it

no sé cómo se las ingenia — I don't know how she does it

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= engineer.

Ex: So, in telephone transmission the bandwidth of each speech circuit is engineered to be 4kHz.

* cómo nos las ingeniamos para = how in the world....

* ingeniarse = contrive, devise.

* ingeniarse el modo de = dream up + ways to.

* ingeniárselas = manage to, finesse, get by.

* ingeniárselas para = figure out how.

* ingeniárselas para escapar = contrive + an escape.

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ingeniar [A1 ]

vt

‹método/sistema› to devise, think up

había ingeniado una manera de escaparse de clase he had worked out o thought up o devised a way of getting out of class

ingeniárselas (fam): no sé cómo se las ingenia para vivir con ese sueldo I don't know how he manages to survive on that salary

se las ingenió para arreglarlo he worked out how to fix it, he found a way to fix it, he managed to fix it

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ingeniar (conjugate ingeniar) verbo transitivo ‹método/sistema› to devise, think up;

◊ ingeniárselas (fam): se las ingenió para arreglarlo he managed to fix it

ingeniar verbo transitivo to invent, devise
♦ Locuciones: ingeniárselas para hacer algo, to manage to do sthg: me las voy a ingeniar para conocerle mejor, I'm going to figure out how to get to know him better

'ingeniar' also found in these entries:
Spanish:
discurrir

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ingeniar

♦ vt

to invent, to devise

♦ See also the pronominal verb ingeniarse

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ingeniar vt

: to devise, to think up

♦ See also the reflexive verb ingeniarse

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ingeniar vb to think up [pt. & pp. thought]

ingenió un juego he thought up a game