To carry a scheme through.
1859. [He] undertakes to engineer a resolution through this House for the expulsion of a brother member.—S. S. Cox, ‘Eight Years in Congress,’ p. 99 (1865).
1873. With good looks, a good voice … and Mr. B. to engineer matters for her.—W. S. Mayo, ‘Never Again,’ p. 99. (N.E.D.)
1882. The corner in grain engineered by parties in Chicago.—Jay Gould in The Standard, Dec. 28. (N.E.D.)
