"Ötvenöt egyiptomi mérnök cigarettázik az épület mögött."

Translation: Fifty-five Egyptian engineers smoke behind the building.

[Arcaeca]

"Yeah boss, I'm just stepping out for a fresh air break, with all my friends here, and also all my friends at that other building. It's completely normal."

[mizinamo]

"and also all my friends from the competitor across the road. No need to worry, boss, we won't be talking about any engineering secrets."

[Andrew359786]

The hint gives "surveyors" as an option but it's not accepted - should it be?

[vvsey]

No, I don't think so. "Mérnök" is engineer.
Interesting how these words come from different origins.
It seems obvious that "engineer" comes from "engine", a machine.
The Hungarian "mérnök", on the other hand, comes from the verb "mér". "Mérni" = "to measure". Possibly like a land surveyor would do. But, still, land surveyor is not "mérnök". It is "földmérő".

[DuccioAiazzi]

Just a note, I think engineer is from the Latin ingenium, which means roughly intelligence.

[cosmo-pedant]

As in - "the spirit within"? - DuccioAiazzi

[Andrew359786]

Does cigarettázik refer to smoking cigarettes specifically, or smoking in general?

[Elcsike]

It refers to smoking cigarettes. Smoking in general would be "dohányozni". (dohányzik in 3rd person singular) Dohány means tobacco.

[ShawnSuth]

I wrote "There are 55 Egyptian engineers smoking behind the building." No good?

[AlexPhysique]

I always imagine every sentence in hungarian) it's funny