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engagement - Dictionary definition and meaning for engagement

ENGAGEMENT

  • (noun) employment for performers or performing groups that lasts for a limited period of time

    "the play had bookings throughout the summer"

    synonyms : booking

  • (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"

    synonyms : battle , conflict , fight

  • (noun) the act of giving someone a job

    synonyms : employment

  • (noun) the act of sharing in the activities of a group

    "the teacher tried to increase his students' engagement in class activities"

    synonyms : involution , involvement , participation

  • (noun) a mutual promise to marry

    synonyms : betrothal , troth

  • (noun) contact by fitting together

    "the engagement of the clutch", "the meshing of gears"

    synonyms : interlocking , mesh , meshing

  • (noun) a meeting arranged in advance

    "she asked how to avoid kissing at the end of a date"

    synonyms : appointment , date

WordNet® 3.0, © 2006 by Princeton University.


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