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Definition of engagement in English: engagementnoun ɪnˈɡeɪdʒm(ə)ntɛnˈɡeɪdʒm(ə)nt 1A formal agreement to get married. she'd broken off her engagement to Paul Example sentencesExamples - Having been governess to Princess Elizabeth from an early age until her engagement to Prince Philip, she left the royal household and wrote a book about her experiences.
- And it won't be a formal engagement, at least not until I can get a ring.
- It contained the two rings - one given to her almost 60 years ago on her engagement and the other for her 50th birthday.
- They could have ten birthdays, an engagement and two weddings all taking place within a seven-day period.
- The families then arranged the engagement and marriage.
- I don't have a ring yet, because we decided it wasn't a formal engagement yet.
- Congratulations to Olive and Edmond, who announced their engagement over the Christmas period.
- Mills was briefly married in 1989 and called off another engagement in 1999.
- The family of the glamour model had arranged a private party to celebrate her engagement to him, on board their Caribbean cruise liner.
- Their engagement was announced on July 10, 1947 when the princess was 21.
- The airport staff were very kind in sending us a bottle of champagne the following day for our engagement, which we greatly appreciated.
- Today also marks the date of his engagement to Hilary - who is also a lollipop lady - and they will celebrate their ruby wedding anniversary on December 29.
- Congratulations to Paul and Anita on their engagement on New Year's Eve.
- Engagement Congratulations to Tracy and Colin who announced their engagement on New Year's Day.
- They had finally put the public grudge to rest when the engagement was announced.
- Here, Chris meets a married York couple who celebrate the second anniversary of their engagement today.
- After the couple's July engagement in Michael's Nice home in the South of France everything seemed rosy.
- She says that because there was no formal engagement, he has broken no promise.
- It didn't take her long to get over her broken engagement with Malcom.
Synonyms betrothal, betrothment, marriage contract archaic plighting of one's troth, espousal, affiance, affiancing, handfast rare sponsalia, subarrhation - 1.1 The duration of an agreement to get married.
a good long engagement to give you time to be sure Example sentencesExamples - Apparently their society demanded a year long engagements, and this couple were newlyweds on their honeymoon.
- People usually marry after a period of formal engagement that can last several years.
- And the engagement promises to be deeper and longer-lasting than anyone ever imagined.
- We separated twice in the duration of our engagement.
2An arrangement to do something or go somewhere at a fixed time. Example sentencesExamples - The two of us had a dinner engagement later that night, and I was about to suggest our departure when we reached a standstill in both our conversation and our walking path.
- Due to appear in court, she chose instead to fulfil a speaking engagement at the public hall.
- The Princess Royal has also cancelled all official engagements so she can be at Windsor to comfort the Queen.
- Then we have about 30 engagements a year, which can involve a lot of travelling.
- While the site offers several corporate suits of a Western nature, it is largely devoted to attire a Hindu gentleman would wear to formal engagements.
- The charity currently has 24 drivers on its rota to carry out the 200 plus requests for transport to hospital and doctors' appointments, social engagements and shopping expeditions.
- This did not help poor Sam who had a dinner engagement at 8.30 pm at Lancaster, hope she made it.
- He had just returned from a dinner engagement with his sister and family.
- Douglas has been involved in a busy range of engagements in his first month in the office.
- The annual St George's Day parade was her first weekend of public engagements since the end of the official period of mourning following the death of the Queen Mother and the memorial service for Princess Margaret.
- He has cancelled all his civic engagements for the remainder of the week.
- She was still carrying out 50 engagements a year at the age of 100.
- As well as their sightseeing the girls have also been invited to a host of formal engagements including a reception in the Irish Embassy with the Irish Ambassador and a reception for the delegates by the President of Finland.
- Unfortunately, the 80-year-old actress was forced to cancel her engagement the day before due to illness, leaving organisers just hours to find a suitable replacement.
- Later that day he had another engagement, where he was going to plant a tree in the school of another finalist in the competition.
- This week is full up with appointments and social engagements, I'm sure of it, but I can hardly remember any specifics, my diary unhelpfully empty.
- He does speaking engagements to inform people about his experiences in the army.
- I headed off for our dinner engagement where I waited in vain for my dear husband to arrive.
- I have a dinner engagement in ten minutes, and I still need to go home first.
Synonyms appointment, arrangement, commitment, meeting, tweetup, interview, consultation, session date, assignation, rendezvous literary tryst 3mass noun The action of engaging or being engaged. Britain's continued engagement in open trading Example sentencesExamples - The two objectives of the model are to improve services and promote community engagement.
- Mutual obligation is therefore seen as a social or political value that can be enforced without reference to whether it involves engagement in a reciprocal economy.
- It mirrored the lack of engagement in last year's US presidential elections.
- Besides my amusement in actually relating a current writing to Plato, I think the column astutely voices a deficiency of student engagement in classes.
- The project seeks to increase understanding of contemporary art and to facilitate engagement with the arts in the workplace.
- Their thinking cannot be based on wide reading or a deep and sustained engagement with issues.
- Q7 Is there anything further about participation and engagement in democracy you would like to add?
- We need to develop community responsibility and civic engagement in young people.
- But it does require far more engagement with the world and reality.
- What we also have is a lack of interest and engagement in formal politics.
- Intuitively, one would expect to find a significant correlation between employee engagement and what a business produces.
- It's about empowerment, informed decision-making and engagement in democratic processes.
- The National Party also seems to be shying away from constructive engagement on such important issues.
- A substantial body of research now proves student satisfaction and engagement in learning increase with participation in the arts.
- The report looked at declining levels of engagement in the political process as well as press and broadcast news.
- The historical implies not so much an engagement with the artistic past as with the unfolding quality and specificity of events in time.
- China's engagement in space scientific experiments and technical tests is entirely out of peaceful purpose, it also represents a contribution to the science of humanity and to the cause of peace.
- Either way, Sweden should move towards a more constructive engagement in the process of European integration.
- The two sides agreed on the need for full engagement in the European project and a close alliance with the US.
- Who would blame them for resisting engagement in this project?
Synonyms participation, participating, taking part, sharing, partaking, involvement, association 4A fight or battle between armed forces. the war's most significant engagements were fought to keep these sea lanes open Example sentencesExamples - The fight for Little Round Top is certainly one of the most written about tactical engagements in the Civil War.
- The division performs major tactical operations for the corps and can conduct sustained battles and engagements.
- It is at this level that actual engagements and battles occur.
- This year marks the 200th anniversary of a naval engagement that affected the balance of power from the Atlantic to the Far East - the Battle of Trafalgar.
- Cavalry engagements fought in mud proved very costly and from a military point of view, hopeless.
- As this country's land-fighting component, the Army has needed and employed interpreters in every engagement throughout its history.
- The enduring peace between Israel and Egypt is a testament to security and stability through effective military engagement.
- Australia currently has a very modest military capability in terms of supporting foreign engagements of large numbers of troops on the ground for a prolonged period.
- The postwar operations will also require heavy engagement of Army forces for an unknown period of time.
- Meanwhile, preparations for military engagement in the Persian Gulf continue.
- Armed conflicts have sparked many innovations in the system of effective engagement of the enemy by fire.
- It is mostly in use where the case in point is organizing combined effective engagement of the enemy or planning employment of air defense forces and assets.
- The first engagement of the Civil War was fought on 21 July 1861 at the first Battle of Bull Run.
- Rapid simultaneous engagement of the enemy will not always result in the simultaneous cessation of all hostilities.
- He fought in most major engagements of the Mexican war.
- All have generated more violence and widened the circle of killing far beyond the formal engagement of armed men on both sides.
- In the early morning hours of November 13, 1942, two naval forces fought one of the fiercest engagements of World War II.
- Extending the conclusion of losing battles, engagements and fire fights can salvage some benefits in the greater campaign.
- Over the course of his tour of duty, Price participated in 23 battles and engagements.
- The goal of precision engagement of ground targets from aircraft has a long history.
Synonyms battle, fight, clash, confrontation, encounter, conflict, struggle, skirmish, affray, attack, assault, offensive warfare, action, combat hostilities informal dogfight, shoot-out, scrap
Origin Early 17th century (in the general sense 'a legal or moral obligation'): French, from engager 'to pledge' (see engage). Definition of engagement in US English: engagementnoun 1A formal agreement to get married. Example sentencesExamples - The airport staff were very kind in sending us a bottle of champagne the following day for our engagement, which we greatly appreciated.
- They could have ten birthdays, an engagement and two weddings all taking place within a seven-day period.
- After the couple's July engagement in Michael's Nice home in the South of France everything seemed rosy.
- It didn't take her long to get over her broken engagement with Malcom.
- They had finally put the public grudge to rest when the engagement was announced.
- Their engagement was announced on July 10, 1947 when the princess was 21.
- It contained the two rings - one given to her almost 60 years ago on her engagement and the other for her 50th birthday.
- Having been governess to Princess Elizabeth from an early age until her engagement to Prince Philip, she left the royal household and wrote a book about her experiences.
- The families then arranged the engagement and marriage.
- She says that because there was no formal engagement, he has broken no promise.
- I don't have a ring yet, because we decided it wasn't a formal engagement yet.
- Congratulations to Olive and Edmond, who announced their engagement over the Christmas period.
- Congratulations to Paul and Anita on their engagement on New Year's Eve.
- Mills was briefly married in 1989 and called off another engagement in 1999.
- The family of the glamour model had arranged a private party to celebrate her engagement to him, on board their Caribbean cruise liner.
- Engagement Congratulations to Tracy and Colin who announced their engagement on New Year's Day.
- Here, Chris meets a married York couple who celebrate the second anniversary of their engagement today.
- And it won't be a formal engagement, at least not until I can get a ring.
- Today also marks the date of his engagement to Hilary - who is also a lollipop lady - and they will celebrate their ruby wedding anniversary on December 29.
Synonyms betrothal, betrothment, marriage contract - 1.1 The duration of an agreement to get married.
a good long engagement to give you time to be sure Example sentencesExamples - And the engagement promises to be deeper and longer-lasting than anyone ever imagined.
- We separated twice in the duration of our engagement.
- People usually marry after a period of formal engagement that can last several years.
- Apparently their society demanded a year long engagements, and this couple were newlyweds on their honeymoon.
2An arrangement to do something or go somewhere at a fixed time. Example sentencesExamples - Due to appear in court, she chose instead to fulfil a speaking engagement at the public hall.
- Douglas has been involved in a busy range of engagements in his first month in the office.
- This did not help poor Sam who had a dinner engagement at 8.30 pm at Lancaster, hope she made it.
- Unfortunately, the 80-year-old actress was forced to cancel her engagement the day before due to illness, leaving organisers just hours to find a suitable replacement.
- This week is full up with appointments and social engagements, I'm sure of it, but I can hardly remember any specifics, my diary unhelpfully empty.
- Later that day he had another engagement, where he was going to plant a tree in the school of another finalist in the competition.
- While the site offers several corporate suits of a Western nature, it is largely devoted to attire a Hindu gentleman would wear to formal engagements.
- The two of us had a dinner engagement later that night, and I was about to suggest our departure when we reached a standstill in both our conversation and our walking path.
- I have a dinner engagement in ten minutes, and I still need to go home first.
- She was still carrying out 50 engagements a year at the age of 100.
- He has cancelled all his civic engagements for the remainder of the week.
- He had just returned from a dinner engagement with his sister and family.
- The charity currently has 24 drivers on its rota to carry out the 200 plus requests for transport to hospital and doctors' appointments, social engagements and shopping expeditions.
- The Princess Royal has also cancelled all official engagements so she can be at Windsor to comfort the Queen.
- He does speaking engagements to inform people about his experiences in the army.
- As well as their sightseeing the girls have also been invited to a host of formal engagements including a reception in the Irish Embassy with the Irish Ambassador and a reception for the delegates by the President of Finland.
- The annual St George's Day parade was her first weekend of public engagements since the end of the official period of mourning following the death of the Queen Mother and the memorial service for Princess Margaret.
- Then we have about 30 engagements a year, which can involve a lot of travelling.
- I headed off for our dinner engagement where I waited in vain for my dear husband to arrive.
Synonyms appointment, arrangement, commitment, meeting, tweetup, interview, consultation, session 3The action of engaging or being engaged. Britain's continued engagement in open trading the engagement of the gears Example sentencesExamples - The project seeks to increase understanding of contemporary art and to facilitate engagement with the arts in the workplace.
- The National Party also seems to be shying away from constructive engagement on such important issues.
- What we also have is a lack of interest and engagement in formal politics.
- It's about empowerment, informed decision-making and engagement in democratic processes.
- The report looked at declining levels of engagement in the political process as well as press and broadcast news.
- Intuitively, one would expect to find a significant correlation between employee engagement and what a business produces.
- Besides my amusement in actually relating a current writing to Plato, I think the column astutely voices a deficiency of student engagement in classes.
- But it does require far more engagement with the world and reality.
- It mirrored the lack of engagement in last year's US presidential elections.
- Q7 Is there anything further about participation and engagement in democracy you would like to add?
- Their thinking cannot be based on wide reading or a deep and sustained engagement with issues.
- We need to develop community responsibility and civic engagement in young people.
- The historical implies not so much an engagement with the artistic past as with the unfolding quality and specificity of events in time.
- A substantial body of research now proves student satisfaction and engagement in learning increase with participation in the arts.
- The two objectives of the model are to improve services and promote community engagement.
- China's engagement in space scientific experiments and technical tests is entirely out of peaceful purpose, it also represents a contribution to the science of humanity and to the cause of peace.
- Either way, Sweden should move towards a more constructive engagement in the process of European integration.
- Who would blame them for resisting engagement in this project?
- The two sides agreed on the need for full engagement in the European project and a close alliance with the US.
- Mutual obligation is therefore seen as a social or political value that can be enforced without reference to whether it involves engagement in a reciprocal economy.
Synonyms participation, participating, taking part, sharing, partaking, involvement, association 4A fight or battle between armed forces. Example sentencesExamples - The division performs major tactical operations for the corps and can conduct sustained battles and engagements.
- The postwar operations will also require heavy engagement of Army forces for an unknown period of time.
- Meanwhile, preparations for military engagement in the Persian Gulf continue.
- It is at this level that actual engagements and battles occur.
- As this country's land-fighting component, the Army has needed and employed interpreters in every engagement throughout its history.
- He fought in most major engagements of the Mexican war.
- All have generated more violence and widened the circle of killing far beyond the formal engagement of armed men on both sides.
- Armed conflicts have sparked many innovations in the system of effective engagement of the enemy by fire.
- The enduring peace between Israel and Egypt is a testament to security and stability through effective military engagement.
- The goal of precision engagement of ground targets from aircraft has a long history.
- In the early morning hours of November 13, 1942, two naval forces fought one of the fiercest engagements of World War II.
- Over the course of his tour of duty, Price participated in 23 battles and engagements.
- The first engagement of the Civil War was fought on 21 July 1861 at the first Battle of Bull Run.
- Extending the conclusion of losing battles, engagements and fire fights can salvage some benefits in the greater campaign.
- It is mostly in use where the case in point is organizing combined effective engagement of the enemy or planning employment of air defense forces and assets.
- This year marks the 200th anniversary of a naval engagement that affected the balance of power from the Atlantic to the Far East - the Battle of Trafalgar.
- Cavalry engagements fought in mud proved very costly and from a military point of view, hopeless.
- Rapid simultaneous engagement of the enemy will not always result in the simultaneous cessation of all hostilities.
- The fight for Little Round Top is certainly one of the most written about tactical engagements in the Civil War.
- Australia currently has a very modest military capability in terms of supporting foreign engagements of large numbers of troops on the ground for a prolonged period.
Synonyms battle, fight, clash, confrontation, encounter, conflict, struggle, skirmish, dogfight, affray, attack, assault, offensive
Origin Early 17th century (in the general sense ‘a legal or moral obligation’): French, from engager ‘to pledge’ (see engage). |