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Engaged   /ɛngˈeɪdʒd/   Listen
Engaged

adjective
1.
Having ones attention or mind or energy engaged.  Synonym: occupied.  "Deeply engaged in conversation"
2.
Involved in military hostilities.
3.
Reserved in advance.  Synonyms: booked, set-aside.
4.
(of facilities such as telephones or lavatories) unavailable for use by anyone else or indicating unavailability; ('engaged' is a British term for a busy telephone line).  Synonyms: busy, in use.  "Receptionists' telephones are always engaged" , "The lavatory is in use" , "Kept getting a busy signal"
5.
(used of toothed parts or gears) interlocked and interacting.  Synonyms: intermeshed, meshed.  "Meshed gears" , "Intermeshed twin rotors"
6.
Having services contracted for.
7.
Built against or attached to a wall.


Engage

verb
(past & past part. engaged; pres. part. engaging)
1.
Carry out or participate in an activity; be involved in.  Synonyms: prosecute, pursue.  "They engaged in a discussion"
2.
Consume all of one's attention or time.  Synonyms: absorb, engross, occupy.
3.
Engage or hire for work.  Synonyms: employ, hire.  "How many people has she employed?"
4.
Ask to represent; of legal counsel.
5.
Give to in marriage.  Synonyms: affiance, betroth, plight.
6.
Get caught.
7.
Carry on (wars, battles, or campaigns).  Synonym: wage.
8.
Hire for work or assistance.  Synonym: enlist.
9.
Engage for service under a term of contract.  Synonyms: charter, hire, lease, rent, take.  "Let's rent a car" , "Shall we take a guide in Rome?"
10.
Keep engaged.  Synonyms: lock, mesh, operate.



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"Engaged" Quotes from Famous Books



... mistaken for a peaceful, law-abiding citizen. One, attired in a red shirt and pants, was leaning back in his chair, smoking a clay pipe. His hair was dark and his beard nearly a week old. Over his left eye was a scar, the reminder of a wound received in one of the numerous affrays in which he had been engaged. ...
— Slow and Sure - The Story of Paul Hoffman the Young Street-Merchant • Horatio Alger
... particularly distressing after the knowledge we had gained in the night. With extreme caution we wormed our way forward, the Professor's piping voice acting as a verbal signpost in helping us to locate the spot where he was engaged in holding the argument. We were close enough to hear his words, and our nerves were on the highest tension as he shrieked a defiance against some person near. We had only one thought as to who that person could be. The Professor was piling charges of treachery upon the head of a listener, ...
— The White Waterfall • James Francis Dwyer
... I had engaged a special motor-brougham to take me from the hotel to my lawyers in Lincoln's Inn, and from there to the station with the precious casket in my possession; I had already banked the notes. I wished to make ...
— A Queen's Error • Henry Curties
... rustic engaged to Zerl[i]na; but Don Giovanni intervenes before the wedding, and deludes the foolish girl into believing that he means to make her a great lady and his wife.—Mozart, Don Giovanni (libretto by L. ...
— Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama - A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3 • E. Cobham Brewer
... intelligence, activity, and other qualities of Lord Cochrane as an admiral, being well-known by the performance of various services in which he has been engaged, and seeing how advantageous it would be for the Empire to avail itself of the known qualities of an Officer so gifted, I deem it proper to confer on him a patent as "First Admiral of the National and Imperial Navy," with an annual salary of eleven contos and five hundred and twenty milreis, ...
— Narrative of Services in the Liberation of Chili, Peru and Brazil, - from Spanish and Portuguese Domination, Volume 2 • Thomas Cochrane, Tenth Earl of Dundonald


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