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Engagement

Engagement Definition And Meaning
What's The Definition Of Engagement? [n] employment for performers or performing groups that lasts for a limited period of time; "the play had bookings throughout the summer" [n] a hostile meeting of opposing military forces in the course of a war; "Grant won a decisive victory in the battle of Chickamauga"; "he lost his romantic ideas about war when he got into a real engagement" [n] the act of giving someone a job [n] the act sharing in the activities of a group; "the teacher tried to increase his students' engagement in class activities" [n] a mutual promise to marry [n] contact by fitting together; "the engagement of the clutch"; "the meshing of gears" [n] a meeting arranged in advance; "she asked how to avoid kissing at the end of a date" Synonyms \| Synonyms for Engagement: appointment \| battle \| betrothal \| booking \| conflict \| date \| fight \| interlocking \| involvement \| mesh \| meshing \| participation \| troth Related Terms \| Find terms related to Engagement: absorbed attention \| absorption \| action \| affair \| affiance \| agreement \| allurement \| alternation \| application \| appointment \| arrangement \| assignation \| association \| attempt \| banns \| banns of matrimony \| bargain \| battle \| berth \| bespeaking \| betrothal \| betrothing \| betrothment \| billet \| blandishment \| blind date \| booking \| borscht circuit \| bout \| briefing \| business \| cajolement \| cajolery \| circuit \| coaction \| coaxing \| cochairmanship \| combat \| commission \| commitment \| complementary distribution \| complicity \| concentration \| concours \| concurrence \| condominium \| conflict \| conning \| contemplation \| contest \| contract \| contribution \| cooperation \| copartnership \| copartnery \| cotenancy \| covenant \| date \| deal \| deep study \| deep thought \| derby \| double date \| effort \| embarrassment \| employment \| encounter \| engagement book \| engaging \| engrossment \| enlistment \| enmeshment \| entanglement \| enterprise \| espousal \| exhortation \| fight \| game \| games \| get-together \| gig \| go \| gymkhana \| handfasting \| having a part \| hiring \| hortation \| immersion \| implication \| inclusion \| incumbency \| inducement \| intentness \| interaction \| interchange \| intercommunication \| intercourse \| interlacing \| intermeshing \| interplay \| intertwining \| interview \| interweaving \| interworking \| invitation \| involution \| involvement \| jawboning \| job \| joint chairmanship \| joint control \| joint ownership \| joint tenancy \| joust \| lobbying \| marriage contract \| marriage proposal \| match \| matching \| meditation \| meet \| meeting \| mesh \| meshing \| monomania \| moonlighting \| obligation \| obsession \| offer of marriage \| office \| Olympic games \| Olympics \| opening \| operation \| partaking \| participation \| partnership \| persuasion \| place \| plan \| playing engagement \| pledge \| plight \| plighted faith \| plighted troth \| position \| post \| preaching \| preachment \| preengagement \| preoccupation \| profound thought \| program \| project \| promise \| proposal \| proposition \| quid pro quo \| rally \| rapt attention \| recognizance \| relation \| rencontre \| rendezvous \| reservation \| retainment \| run \| sales talk \| salesmanship \| second job \| seesaw \| selling \| service \| sharing \| single-mindedness \| situation \| snow job \| soft soap \| solicitation \| spot \| stand \| station \| studiousness \| study \| suasion \| submersion \| suffrage \| sweet talk \| taking on \| task \| tenure \| test \| tilt \| tit for tat \| tour \| tournament \| tourney \| trial \| troth \| tryst \| understanding \| undertaking \| vacancy \| vaudeville circuit \| venture \| verbal agreement \| visit \| voting \| wheedling \| word \| work \| working on See Also \| action \| Armageddon \| armed combat \| assault \| Battle of Britain \| blind date \| call-back \| combat \| commitment \| contact \| dogfight \| Drogheda \| employment \| escort \| get together \| gig \| group action \| group participation \| impinging \| intercession \| intervention \| meeting \| military action \| naval battle \| pitched battle \| promise \| rendezvous \| reservation \| ringing \| shape-up \| striking \| tryst \| war \| warfare \| work Engagement In Webster's Dictionary \En*gage"ment\, n. [Cf. F. engagement.] 1. The act of engaging, pledging, enlisting, occupying, or entering into contest. 2. The state of being engaged, pledged or occupied; specif., a pledge to take some one as husband or wife. 3. That which engages; engrossing occupation; employment of the attention; obligation by pledge, promise, or contract; an enterprise embarked in; as, his engagements prevented his acceptance of any office. Religion, which is the chief engagement of our league. --Milton. 4. (Mil.) An action; a fight; a battle. In hot engagement with the Moors. --Dryden. 5. (Mach.) The state of being in gear; as, one part of a clutch is brought into engagement with the other part. Syn: Vocation; business; employment; occupation; promise; stipulation; betrothal; word; battle; combat; fight; contest; conflict. See {Battle}.

Engagement Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Engagement?

[n] employment for performers or performing groups that lasts for a limited period of time; "the play had bookings throughout the summer"
[n] a hostile meeting of opposing military forces in the course of a war; "Grant won a decisive victory in the battle of Chickamauga"; "he lost his romantic ideas about war when he got into a real engagement"
[n] the act of giving someone a job
[n] the act sharing in the activities of a group; "the teacher tried to increase his students' engagement in class activities"
[n] a mutual promise to marry
[n] contact by fitting together; "the engagement of the clutch"; "the meshing of gears"
[n] a meeting arranged in advance; "she asked how to avoid kissing at the end of a date"

Engagement In Webster's Dictionary

\En*gage"ment\, n. [Cf. F. engagement.]
1. The act of engaging, pledging, enlisting, occupying, or
   entering into contest.

2. The state of being engaged, pledged or occupied; specif.,
   a pledge to take some one as husband or wife.

3. That which engages; engrossing occupation; employment of
   the attention; obligation by pledge, promise, or contract;
   an enterprise embarked in; as, his engagements prevented
   his acceptance of any office.

         Religion, which is the chief engagement of our
         league.                               --Milton.

4. (Mil.) An action; a fight; a battle.

         In hot engagement with the Moors.     --Dryden.

5. (Mach.) The state of being in gear; as, one part of a
   clutch is brought into engagement with the other part.

Syn: Vocation; business; employment; occupation; promise;
     stipulation; betrothal; word; battle; combat; fight;
     contest; conflict. See {Battle}.

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