'Engagement' definitions:
Definition of 'engagement'
(from WordNet)
noun
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" [syn: battle, conflict, fight, engagement]
noun
A meeting arranged in advance; "she asked how to avoid kissing at the end of a date" [syn: date, appointment, engagement]
noun
noun
The act of giving someone a job [syn: employment, engagement]
noun
Employment for performers or performing groups that lasts for a limited period of time; "the play had bookings throughout the summer" [syn: engagement, booking]
noun
Contact by fitting together; "the engagement of the clutch"; "the meshing of gears" [syn: engagement, mesh, meshing, interlocking]
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The act of sharing in the activities of a group; "the teacher tried to increase his students' engagement in class activities" [syn: engagement, participation, involvement, involution] [ant: non-engagement, non- involvement, nonparticipation]
Definition of 'Engagement'
From: GCIDE
- Engagement \En*gage"ment\, n. [Cf. F. engagement.]
- 1. The act of engaging, pledging, enlisting, occupying, or entering into contest. [1913 Webster]
- 2. The state of being engaged, pledged or occupied; specif., a pledge to take some one as husband or wife. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- Religion, which is the chief engagement of our league. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 4. (Mil.) An action; a fight; a battle. [1913 Webster]
- In hot engagement with the Moors. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'engagement'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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