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Meaning of combat engineer | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

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.

Equivalents

Suomi pioneeri
日本語 工兵
한국어 공병
Kurdî şaper
Türkçe kazmacı
Tiếng Việt công bình

Examples

“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.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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